Mom tells me that Charles and Alice were discussing additional siblings. They decided on two more, one boy and one girl. These babies would sleep in the basement, because Alice doesn’t want to share her room. I asked her why that would be a problem, since she mostly sleeps in Mommie’s room, but she said that her room was still her room and not for babies. I asked about the babies getting lonely being in the basement, but Alice’s heart was unmoved by their hypothetical plight. “Babies have to stay in the basement!” she declared.
At this point Charles was moved —
Charles: The babies have to stay in the basement?
Alice: Yes.
Charles: They can’t come upstairs ever?
Alice: They have to stay in the basement.
Charles. But then they can’t ever have cake.
Alice: Someone could take cake down to them in the basement.
Alice refused to comment substantively on whether the babies would be allowed upstairs once they weren’t babies anymore (except to affirm that Alice is not a baby).