What Kind Of Woman

Get kathleen
Get kathleen, i tell you! Call the doctor!
Is it alive? Oh, please, god, let it be
It's alive. It's a negro child. A newborn baby boy
What kind of woman
Would do such a thing?
Why in god's name
Is my husband not here?
I'm such a fool!

Why did i say
He was free to go?
What am i to do?
Where are your instructions
My dear?
You left me lists
Everything in lists!
Well, your little lists
Aren't very helpful
I fear!
Each day, the maids
Trudge up the hill
The hired help arrives
I never stopped to think
They might
Have lives beyond out lives...

We found her in the cellar of a home on the next block
She's a washwoman there
Her name is sarah
Where will you take her?
To the charity ward
Eventually she will have to stand trial.

What charges?
Well, attempted murder, i should think
What's going to happen to the baby?
They have places for unfortunates like this
I will take responsibility for mother and child
Please take miss sarah inside.

What kind of woman
Would do what i've done
Open the door
To such chaos and pain!
You would have
Gently closed the door
And gently turned the key
And gently told me not to look
For fear of what i'd see.

What kind of woman
Would that have made me?