Something Childish and other Stories. Katherine Mansfield

of course Helen would have forgotten the whipping by to-morrow morning, and I’d promised her a new doll...” The old woman spoke regretfully.

      Doctor Malcolm snapped his bag together.

      “It’s no good talking to the old bird,” he thought, “she doesn’t take in half I say. Don’t seem to have got any forrader than doing Helen out of a doll.”

      (1910)