"Welcome back to the Flippy Gibbit show. We were just interviewing Charles St. Evermond Darnay Mannette and we are glad to have you here. Now you said there were a few times you chose to use punishment-"

"Only when I felt like her life was in danger or the kids life were in danger. Other then that I would just use calm discussions."

"Well how many times did you use punishment?"

"All together there were 3 times when punishment was assigned but it was never followed through. The first time Lucie was seven months pregnant and had a craving so she decided to go into town late at night. I was concerned because it was not a good neighborhood to be in at that hour so I informed her that after the baby was born she would not be allowed to hold him or her for a week. Sydney who was there at the time told me I was being an ass. Thankfully he was a bigger one."

"I was not a bigger one," Sydney interrupted

"Yes you were and I'm grateful that you were"

"How was he a bigger ass"

"He wouldn't let up about it," Charles says, "Nag, nag, nag... he started to sound like a mother bugging her kid to get up for school"

((Audience laughs))

"What about the second time you assigned punishment?"

"Little Lucie was three weeks old and we had gone for a walk. Lucie I thought had forgotten to put the brake on her carriage and the carriage rolled down the hill. I instituted a 24 hour ban where she was not allowed to hold the baby for 24 hours"

"That seems to be a popular one with you"

"Well I figured the punishment should fit the offense"

"So how did it fit the offense?"

"Because she put the baby at risk by forgetting to put the brake on"

"I suppose that makes sense

"Sydney in his not so subtle way told me I was being a damn fool"

"Well you were," Sydney says

"So what happened next"

"I got called out of town for the day and Sydney was more then happy to keep an eye on my family. I was alright with that"

"He left around 7:30 in the morning," Sydney says, "So the first thing I do is look out the window and wait until I'm no longer able to see the carriage so I know that Charles isn't within seeing distance or hearing distance for that matter and then I handed the baby over to Lucie."

"What was her reaction to that?"

"She said thank you but she wasn't allowed to hold her because she was being punished for forgetting to put the brake up. I replied that I knew all about her punishment but as I was in charge that day I decided to cancel her punishment"

"So Charles what was the third time?"

"Like the 2nd situation except with Chandler"

"Same results?"

"Nearly the same," Sydney said, "But this time I made her wait a full sixty seconds before handing him to her. Of course I said I just needed to finish feeding him but I thought she needed to wait a minute since this was the second incident"

"How did Chandler um... die?"

"He got very sick. Scarlet fever nearly killed him once but the second time it took him"

"Did that upset you?"

"Did it upset me? No I loved the fact that my son was dead. What kind of stupid question is that?"

"Alright. Maybe that wasn't the smartest question I could have asked."

"Ya think?"

"Well I can see we are about to go to a commercial so next up we will meet the heroine of our story Lucie Manette"