Alice Adams

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The patient an old-fashioned man thought the nurse made a mistake in keeping both of the windows open and her sprightly disregard of his protests added something to his hatred of her. Every evening he told her that anybody with ordinary gumption ought to realize that night air was bad for the human frame. The human frame won't stand everything Miss Perry he warned her resentfully. Even a child if it had just ordinary gumption ought to know enough not to let the night air blow on sick people yes nor well people either! 'Keep out of the night air no matter how well you feel.' That's what my mother used to tell me when I was a boy. 'Keep out of the night air Virgil' she'd say. 'Keep out of the night air.'