Never Too Late
by Sumner Arthur Long

This Broadway hit is about a married man in his fifties who suddenly learns he's becoming a father again.

His last child, a girl, was born 24 years ago and, considering the boob she married, he finds the prospect of another unthinkable.

His daughter and son-in-law live with him; she gets up for breakfast at lunchtime and he is curiously addicted to solitaire.

It's not only the impending birth that startles him; his previously meek little wife begins to lay down the law.

There's to be a nursery, a new bath, and she's to have her own checking account.

Such dour capitulation you'll never see again.