"Shh.... it's ok, sweetheart....! It's ok....!" Rhonda for her part, grimaced at the man who she was suddenly living with as a married woman -- and of course, there was always the question of what she'd thought about him a mere week before - so loving, so - kind, and laughing....! Unlike her first husband, of course...
But ever since Patricia had been born, well - that man seemed to have disappeared, to be replaced by a gentleman who was not so gentlemanly all over sudden... Indeed, she wondered why she hadn't seen this side of him- this gloomy, mopey side - before she'd even agreed to legally marry him, back in Florida! She wasn't happy with him, at all, at the moment - even less so once she found him threatening to commit suicide on the Network! She'd completely lost it, just then - sobbing right along with Patricia, which of course didn't really help her baby quiet down, either....
Finally at long last, she snapped at him, "Oh bloody G-d, Ernst, would you just get up and take the baby? At least you aren't crying, after all- to rile her up even more!"