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But you aren't a child, and you've no child in the house; why worry then?

Oh, but I have brought a child into the house.

Indeed, how so?

You remember how my wife was dying to adopt a child?

Yes, but that's an old story; you didn't like the idea.

You know, brother, how hard all this getting money in has been. That somebody else's child would sail in and