Chapter 43

“I don’t take confinement cases as a rule, any more,” he said, “though I’ve had thirty years experience with them--and I would make an exception for a neighbour--for someone in the same apartment building . . . I can remember this neighbourhood when there were no apartments--when I knew every child in the block--and had brought most of them into the world. . . . Well, there aren’t so many children in the block, now.” His voice was wistful, but there was something Lisbeth had to know before she could manage to be po…