Chapter 37

Father met with his sister Nan on the day after her tea with Jeanette. They had lunch at her hotel and spent several hours together. Her train was to leave early the next morning for her trip home to British Columbia. So Campbell said goodbye to his sister and niece. When he returned home we were all in the living room and I noticed that he seemed to be very sad, and assumed it was because he had said goodbye to them.

But he was more than sad, he was very morose, almost angry! As usual, mother was up in the nursery with the baby and when Campbell came upstairs and knocked on the door, she told him to go away. He was grim faced when he went into the kitchen to talk to Florence. I heard him questioning her, but could not make out what it was all about. I heard him ask her, "Did you know?" I did not know what was going on as I did not hear the rest of the conversation. Finally Martha and I went to bed as the two younger children were already asleep. Gene had gone out for the evening, and after making his safety rounds for the evening, father came upstairs. He knocked once more on the nursery door, but got no answer and went into the master bedroom where he slipped into his bed alongside the other twin bed where Irv lay sound asleep.