“You can stop wearing out my linoleum,” he said, smiling widely. “It’s a girl, and mother and baby are just fine!”

“A girl!” Bill exclaiming, grinning from ear to ear. “That’s wonderful!”

“A girl?” Hannah asked, wondering if Doc Knight was so worn out from working long hours that he’d gotten Andrea’s son mixed up with another female baby he’d delivered tonight.

As everyone crowded around Bill to offer congratulations and slap him on the back, Hannah rushed up to Doc before he could go off to do whatever doctors do after they deliver a baby.

Doc Knight turned as she grabbed his arm. “What is it, Hannah?”

“You said Andrea had a girl. Are you sure?”

“Of course I’m sure. You can’t be in this in this business for as long as I have if you can’t tell a girl baby from a boy baby.”

“Right. I just thought maybe …well … she had the test, and she told me it was ninety-nine percent accurate.”

“That’s true, but she just happened to hit that one percent. Your sister had a baby girl, seven pounds, three ounces. I’m sorry if that disappoints you, but those are the facts.”

“I’m not disappointed,” Hannah did her best to explain. “It’s just that Andrea promised to name a girl after Mother and Regina Todd. And the only reason she did that was because she was sure she was having a boy. Now it turns out to be a girl, and … “

“She’s in hot water,” Doc Knight finished the sentence for her. “No wonder she cried when I told her the baby was a girl.”

“She cried?” Hannah asked, feeling a bit like crying herself.

“Not for long. One look at her daughter and she was happy again. But just as soon as the new daddy goes off to celebrate with his friends, I think you sisters had better put your heads together and see if you can come up with a name that’ll please both families.”

“Are you okay?” Hannah asked, entering Andrea’s room the second that Bill had vacated it.

“I’m fine, but Mother and Regina won’t be. There’s no way I’m naming my darling little daughter Delores Regina or Regina Delores!”

“I can understand that,” Hannah said.

“So what am I going to do? You’ve got to help me!”

Tears threatened to roll down Andrea’s cheeks and Hannah reached out to give her a hug. “I’ll think of something. Just give me a minute. Did you promise specifically to use their first names?”

“No.”

“That’s good. That means we have at least two more names to work with. Mother’s middle name is Elizabeth. Do you know what Regina’s is?”

“Anatolia,” Andrea said promptly. “Since Todd is such a common last name, Bill’s grandmother decided to give her children distinctive names. Regina Anatolia is the Italian baby. Bill’s aunt, Martinique Renée, is the French. And then there’s the youngest sister. Dona Esmeralda, and she’s the … “