Their Child
Simmons stumbled across the hall and up the dark staircase. The coming storm had suddenly blackened all the house. The open doors of the bedrooms sucked out the swaying air that came in puffs from the windows. In the eastern room, above the terrace where they had been sitting, Simmons found his wife, clasping their child in a hysterical embrace.
“What have you done? My darling—my one—my Oscar!” A dry sob ended the broken exclamations.
They were huddled in a heap upon the floor beside the window. The child’s face had a look of intense wonder, of concentrated thought upon some difficult idea which eluded his baby mind.[25] Across the iron cot at one side of the room was stretched the inert form of the nurse.
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