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Royal Jelly
‘IT WORRIES ME to death, Albert, it really does,’ Mrs Taylor said.
She kept her eyes fixed1 on the baby who was now lying absolutely motionless in the crook2 of
her left arm.
‘I just know there’s something wrong.’
The skin on the baby’s face had a pearly translucent3 quality and was stretched very tightly over
the bones.
‘Try again,’ Albert Taylor said.
‘It won’t do any good.’
‘You have to keep trying, Mabel,’ he said.
She lifted the bottle out of the saucepan of hot water and shook a few drops of milk on to the
inside of her wrist, testing for temperature.
‘Come on,’ she whispered. ‘Come on, my baby. Wake up and take a bit more of this.’
There was a small lamp on the table close by that made a soft yellow glow all around her.
‘Please,’ she said. ‘Take just a weeny bit more.’
The husband watched her over the top of his magazine. She was half dead with exhaustion4, he
could see that, and the pale oval face, usually so grave and serene5, had taken on a kind of pinched
and desperate look. But even so, the drop of her head as she gazed down at the child was curiously6
beautiful.
‘You see,’ she murmured. ‘It’s no good. She won’t have it.’
She held the bottle up to the light, squinting7 at the calibrations.
‘One ounce again. That’s all she’s taken. No – it isn’t even that. It’s only three-quarters. It’s not
enough to keep body and soul together, Albert, it really isn’t. It worries me to death.’
‘I know,’ he said.
‘If only they could find out what was wrong.’
‘There’s nothing wrong, Mabel. It’s just a matter of time.’
‘Of course there’s something wrong.’
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diabetes
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