The Last Days Before a Baby's Arrival

The saving grace, Rossley thought, is that not all pains and worries are permanent. Some time sensitive can be desensitized by time. How else could a parent or anyone go on living courageously? A character in the Rebecca West novel, before going to France to be immediately killed in the Great War, says to his mother, I am sure that if you had been told when you were a child about all the things that you were going to have to do, you would have thought you had better die at once. You could very well have said that to the woman across the aisle, or indeed to herself as she was 20 years ago.