“For it stands to reason,” said Lydia’s old cook to Palmer the old parlourmaid who had now returned from her holiday, “that it’s against nature if all the family don’t have it. They say if you don’t catch the measles when they’re about, it drives them in. My old auntie when one of her children got the measles she shut them all up in the one room till they got it too, and the same with the whooping-cough. Now it’s as likely as not Baby’ll get the measles somewhere and if he’d got them off Miss Lavinia it would be more in nature. It’s where you get the measles that makes all the difference.” Palmer said no one knew where Miss Lavinia got hers. The cook said Ah well, we couldn’t all know everything, but mark her word, if Nurse would let Baby take his sandals off in the garden we would see wha
