infantilisation

• Blanche: You hear me? I said stand up! [Stella complies reluctantly] You messy child, you, you’ve splilt something on that pretty white lace collar!
• Stella: when he’s away for a week I nearly go wild! Blanche: Gracious! Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby
• STANLEY: Let me enlighten you on a point or two, baby.
• I’m compiling a notebook of quaint little words and phrases I’ve picked up here