She didn't offer to drive him to the station. If he thought she was such a helpless creature then let him get a taxi. She wasn't a silly bean any more.

In the early days, you may even experience a heart-pounding nightmare or two about being separated from your baby or your baby falling off a balcony...

If...the A-68 protein proves essential to the development of the disease and not merely another by-product.

[…]in bed by 6:45 each evening and were even forbidden to eat certain foods, such as bananas, until they were twelve. This had the predictable result of inducing a certain amount of bananaphobia as the twelfth birthday approached.