His legs had started feeling weak on the second day and by the third he was having difficulty standing. He had gotten used to the sensation of having his bottom cleaned and diapered by a woman whom he had wanted to bed only three days earlier.
On day four, he awoke with his thumb in his mouth and discovered that she had decided to change his routine. The nursery had become a familiar place to him and his schedule had seemed to be set in stone. Instead of changing and feeding him, however, she merely changed him out of his dirty overnight diaper and rediapered him in a thinner daytime diaper before putting him back in his crib and giving him a baby bottle full of apple juice.