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Nor had his mother . It was an indecent carouse at which his father and Miss Insull had to assist . But his father had shame . His father would have preferred that , as Miss Insull had kindly offered to stop and work on Thursday afternoon , and as the shop was chilly , the due rotation should have brought the bottle round at half-past five o'clock , and not the mother 's breast . He was a self-conscious parent , rather apologetic to the world , rather apt to stand off and pretend that he had nothing to do with the affair ; and he genuinely disliked that anybody should witness the intimate scene of HIS wife feeding HIS baby . Especially Miss Insull , that prim , dark , moustached spinster ! He would not have called it an outrage on Miss Insull , to force her to witness the scene , but his idea approached within sight of the word .