"Well of course it's really a smile!" Robert, slightly taken aback and slightly unsurprised at once (she had a right to extreme reactions, he couldn't blame her and couldn't get upset, and kept that in check) had always hated when people said smiling in infants was just a reflex, even if it was true. It ruined a lot of the beauty of spending time around babies.

"I wouldn't say something like that. It's horrible to say things like that, I agree with you there, and he knows you. Probably hasn't got much of a clue who I am outside of the sound of my voice right now, but he knows you and has always known you and will always know you. He'll get used to the rest of us, and we'll all have to deal with being second to you, because you're the only familiar thing that smells just right."

Fabian, as if he understood, crinkled his nose.