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Jones, she was expecting her baby at any
moment.
It all came out in less than twenty-four hours.
Everybody knew it, all the foreign doctors knew
it and loved it, all their patients knew it, the
two English chemists knew it, the English baker
in Via Babuino knew it, Cook’s knew it, all the
pensions in Via Sistina knew it, in all the English
tea-rooms people talked of nothing else. Soon
every member of the British colony in Rome
knew that I had committed a colossal blunder
and that I had insulted the Reverend Jonathan’s
memory. Everybody knew that Doctor Jones
had not left the Hôtel de Russie and that the
midwife had been sent for at midnight. The
next day the English colony in Rome split into
two hostile camps. Was there going to be a
baby or was there not going to be a baby? All
the English doctors and their patients, the clergy
and the faithful congregation, the English chemist
in Via Condotti, were all certain there was going
to be a baby. All my patients, the rival chemist
in Piazza Mignanelli, all the flower-sellers in
Piazza di Spagna, all the models on the Trinità
dei Monti steps under my windows, all the dealers
in roba antica, all the scalpellini in Via Margutta,
denied emphatically that there was going to be
a baby. The English baker was wavering. My
friend the English Consul was, though reluctantly,
forced to take up his position against me for
reasons of patriotism. The position of Signor
Cornacchia, the undertaker, was a particularly
delicate one, requiring careful handling. There
was on one hand his unshaken faith in my
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