Last Stop Marriage. Emma Darcy

      ‘Not your pet name for her. Her Christian name.’

      ‘I never thought of any other name but Baby.’

      ‘For God’s sake, Dan! She has to have a proper name.’

      ‘What’s wrong with Baby? She likes it. She responds to it. I’m not going to confuse her by calling her something else.’

      ‘What about when she goes to school? Grows up? You can’t expect her to live with a name like Baby,’ Jayne cried in exasperation at his stubborn obtuseness.

      ‘The only nickname she can get is Babe. She’ll be fine.’

      ‘Only a man could think like that!’

      ‘So I’m a man. She hasn’t got a mother to give finer female consideration to a name.’

      ‘Any mother would be tossing around names while she was pregnant. You must know what her mother wanted,’ Jayne fired at him.