[What Diantha Did by Charlotte Perkins Gilman]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Diantha Did CHAPTER IV 9/18
"I do.
Of _course_ I do! I'm just tired, I guess.
Goodnight, Sweetheart." She was late in getting to sleep and late in waking. When he finally sat down to the hurriedly spread breakfast-table, Mr. Porne, long coffeeless, found it a bit difficult to keep his temper. Isabel was a little stiff, bringing in dishes and cups, and paying no attention to the sounds of wailing from above. "Well if you won't I will!" burst forth the father at last, and ran upstairs, returning presently with a fine boy of some eleven months, who ceased to bawl in these familiar arms, and contented himself, for the moment, with a teaspoon. "Aren't you going to feed him ?" asked Mr.Porne, with forced patience. "It isn't time yet," she announced wearily.
"He has to have his bath first." "Well," with a patience evidently forced farther, "isn't it time to feed me ?" "I'm very sorry," she said.
"The oatmeal is burned again.
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