input: Text: Volpla By WYMAN GUIN Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS The only kind of gag worth pulling, I always maintained, was a cosmic one—till I learned the Cosmos has a really nasty sense of humor! There were three of them. Dozens of limp little mutants that would have sent an academic zoologist into hysterics lay there in the metabolic accelerator. But there were three of them. My heart took a great bound. I heard my daughter's running feet in the animal rooms and her rollerskates banging at her side. I closed the accelerator and walked across to the laboratory door. She twisted the knob violently, trying to hit a combination that would work. I unlocked the door, held it against her pushing and slipped out so that, for all her peering, she could see nothing. I looked down on her tolerantly. "Can't adjust your skates?" I asked again. "Daddy, I've tried and tried and I just can't turn this old key tight enough." I continued to look down on her. "Well, Dad-dee, I can't!" "Tightly enough." "What?" "You can't turn this old key tightly enough." "That's what I say -yud." "All right, wench. Sit on this chair." I got down and shoved one saddle shoe into a skate. It fitted perfectly. I strapped her ankle and pretended to use the key to tighten the clamp. Volplas at last. Three of them. Yet I had always been so sure I could create them that I had been calling them volplas for ten years. No, twelve. I glanced across the animal room to where
  Question: What kind of relationship does the narrator have with his children?
  
   (A) The children don't talk to him at all, because they are constantly disappointed by his not sharing his work with them
   (B) The children see him as a kind but absent father figure who is dedicated to his science
   (C) The children think he is nice but odd, perhaps a bit too talkative about his own pride around his work
   (D) The children are upset with him because they think he is too strict, making them swim with bathing suits, and things like this
  Answer:
output: The children see him as a kind but absent father figure who is dedicated to his science