"Not till he's better looking. It would be an awful shock to Jerry to see it now."
Then she went to sleep again. When she woke, Jerry was beside her.
"I'm sorry he's so plain," was her first word.
"He's a fine boy, Jane," he said, with a gulp.
Two days later, when Bobs was admitted, Jane confessed to her her shortcomings in the new rôle.
"I didn't do it right at all, Bobs."
"Why not?"
"In books and plays the mother always says, 'My baby, my own beautiful boy,' when they put her infant in her arms. The father always says, 'little mother!' You know, you've seen it in pictures. Well, I said: 'It's ugly, take it away,' and Jerry lied to comfort me."
Bobs and the nurse laughed at this tragic tale.
"I like him better than I did at first, though. He has nice hands," Jane admitted.