She looked up, smiling, when he tucked the blanket around her legs.“You know, I have wondering what －it－ is like,” she said.“Before we are born, I mean. It is too bad we can not remember.?She opened her robe and pulled up the sweater she wore underneath, revealing a belly as round and hard as a melon. She ran her hand across its smooth surface, firelight playing across her skin, casting ereddish gold onto her hair.“Do you suppose it is like being inside a great lantern? The book says light permeates﹙渗透﹚ my skin, and that the baby can already see.”

　　“I do not know,” he said.

　　She laughed.“Why not?” she asked. “You are the doctor.”

　　“I am just an orthopedic surgeon,” he reminded her.“I could tell you the ossification pattern for fetal﹙胎儿的﹚ bones, but that is about it.”He lifted her foot, both delicate and swollen inside the light blue hands, and began to massage it gently. Her breathing filled the quiet room, and her foot warmed his hands, In pregnancy she seemed to him beautiful but fragile, fine blue veins faintly visible through her pale white skin.

　　The scene happened＿

　　when it was early in the evening

　　when it was early in the morning

　　when a child was born

　　after a baby was born

　　What can we learn from their conversation?

　　The woman was expecting her first child

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