252 wivesbehavingbadly

. poor little boy ." she nuzzled his check with lingering tenderness ." mummy wil make it better .
i did not often think about my mother and it is safe to say that while she was a;ive , my mother did not often think about me in a real , proper , mothrly way . first , she was always too tired trying to earn a living after my fathr abandoned us . second , she did not like me . consequently . i lay many of life's ills  at her door because , as the self -help  manuals point out , it's your mother who sets the tone . when she was alive . i pretended she wasn't .
"listen to me ..." paige did not look up from charlie . i got up and i snatched poor charlie out of her arms . he felt bulky and compact and smelled of half -digest milk . he protested at this sudden change , but i didn't care ." you will listen to me to say to myself ." rose is so complacement . she doesn't care about nathan in the way he needs . she deserves a husband like nathan ." in the end . i felt it was almost my duty to take nathan than away ."
"and you succeeded so ?"
"you're missing the point , paige . you can reason yourself in and out of anything . that's the trouble with reason , it's flexible ."
paige stood up and held out her arms . " give me my baby ."
she ordered  ." he needs changing ."
i clung to charlie ." you can't honestly think that the children will he better off without martin .
"hark at who's talking ."