the coroner's man that the woman had never borne a child isn't controvertible."
Peewee clenched his small hands; this talk, he thought, was hard to understand.
"The nurse simply worked out an explanation of the circumstances. They don't class the case as exceptionally remarkable; it's just from their point of view, a drug addict case. The nurse's name is Sandsby; she's had a lot of experience and was called to attend this Helen Lampert a week before the woman died."
The hard words, Peewee realized, were fewer in this last; if they would use common words he could get at the meaning of their conversation.
"The nurse says the woman talked freely to her. Her talk wasn't always sane; she was an excessive drug user. The nurse says the woman talked continually about a boy. The nurse didn't get the impression from her at first that she believed the boy to be her son. All she told the nurse in the beginning was that she had employed a private police agency to look the boy up. It was after the agency had reported to her that she told the nurse the boy
