Picture the scene in one particular house: a woman and a man gaze lovingly on a small, special bundle of life asleep in a basket in the corner. And they smile at the basket itself, surrounded as it is by kind neighbours’ gifts. The man takes the woman’s hand, and she looks at him contentedly.
Then he says to her, “Alice, you don’t think by any chance that we might be spoiling this cat a little, do you?”