"It shocks me.

I _want_ to feel detached and heavenly and absorbed." "But Billy, dear, think of it--calling your own baby a third person!" Billy sighed despairingly.
"Yes, I know.

And I suppose I might as well own up to the rest of it too.

I--I'm actually afraid of babies, Aunt Hannah! Well, I am," she reiterated, in answer to Aunt Hannah's gasp of disapproval.

"I'm not used to them at all.