I’m afraid, Did you see? Did you feel? It’s too real
Now, Lydia...
You’ve got to tell Wendy and Peter not to read any more on Africa
Of course — of course
And lock the nursery for a few days until I get my nerves settled
You know how difficult Peter is about that. When I punished him a month ago bylocking the nursery for even a few hours — the tantrum be threw! And Wendy too. They live for the nursery
It’s got to be locked, that’s all there is to it.
All right,You’ve been working too hard. You need a rest.
I don’t know — I don’t know, Maybe I don’t have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much. Why don’t we shut the whole house off for a few days and take a vacation?
But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to doanything?
That’s just it. I feel like I don’t belong here. The house is wife and mother now,and nursemaid. Can I compete with an African veldt? Can I give a bath and scrub the children as efficiently or quickly as the automatic scrub bath can? I cannot. And it isn’t just me. It’s you. You’ve been awfully nervous lately.