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I found it extremely touching to witness Peggy’s pregnancy advancing. She is one of those young women who blooms, looks radiant, and seems to sail through the whole thing with aplomb. She was also very busy nest-building, making a whole new flat perfect for the coming baby, in the perfectionist way she does everything. Sometimes, secretly. I felt just a little sad. I don’t know why. I can only think that it was something to do with her growing up completely, or a sense of a new era approaching (or maybe a realization of my own ageing) – I’m not sure. Also. Claire had once miscarried a child that we had longed for, and I suppose that, because my wife is rather like her daughter, it made me think of what it would have been like if she had carried the baby to term. Towards the end of Peggy’s pregnancy, we were very excited and full of curiosity about the coming child – though finally you just think. ‘Come on, baby, will you!’