Ayako: “I have a baby in my tummy.”
Sophie: “You ate a baby?”
Ayako: “No, I didn’t eat a baby.”
Sophie: “How did it get there?”
Ayako: “Well, there’s a seed in my tummy, and it’s growing.”
Sophie moves on to other things, presumably as confused by that explanation as I am. Babies come from seeds? How did the seed get there? Later,
Sophie: “Where is the baby?”
Ayako: “In my tummy.”
Sophie moves on to other things. We’ll never know what she really thought.
