What must it have been like before there were anaesthetics?
Once it started, they were in the mill-race.
Catherine had a good time in the time of pregnancy.
It wasn't bad.
She was hardly ever sick.
She was not awfully uncomfortable until toward the last.
So now they got her in the end.
You never got away with anything.
Get away hell!
It would have been the same if we had been married fifty times.
And what if she should die?
She won't die.
People don't die in childbirth nowadays.
That was what all husbands thought.
Yes, but what if she should die?
She won't die.
She's just having a bad time.
The initial labor is usually protracted.
She's only having a bad time.
Afterward we'd say what a bad time and Catherine would say it wasn't really so bad.
But what if she should die?
She can't die.
Yes, but what if she should die?
She can't, I tell you.
Don't be a fool.
It's just a bad time.
It's just nature giving her hell.
It's only the first labor, which is almost always protracted.
Yes, but what if she should die?
She can't die.
Why would she die?
What reason is there for her to die?
There's just a child that has to be born, the by-product of good nights in Milan.
It makes trouble and is born and then you look after it and get fond of it maybe. But what if she should die? She won't die. But what if she should die? She won't. She's all right.
But what if she should die?
She can't die.
But what if she should die?
Hey, what about that?
What if she should die?
The doctor came into the room.
"How does it go, doctor?"
"It doesn't go," he said.
"What do you mean?"
"Just that.
I made an examination--" He detailed the result of the examination. "Since then I've waited to see.
But it doesn't go."
"What do you advise?"
"There are two things. Either a high forceps delivery which can tear and be quite dangerous besides being possibly bad for the child, and a Caesarean."
"What is the danger of a Caesarean?"
What if she should die!