Many women were not married. Dr. Carre was certainly sympathetic to that.
"Of course, she wishes to be sure the child will be born healthy? That my coleagues might not see her, they should certainly be ashamed!"
Too often, it was not as if the woman had entirely brought it on herself, after all, so many things could go wrong in a young woman's life, especially now, and even if she had been with a lover most willingly, the punishment should certainly not be to die, nor, for that matter, for the child to do so.
Of course, if it were otherwise, she wanted this stranger to say so. That did not mean that she would necessarily be unsympathetic, simply that in such matters, a great deal of decorum would be mandatory.