Three short lines, and a whole small scene. The speaker's partner has "all the morning to herself," while the speaker is left with "a gown" and "the paper." The poem doesn't say what she is doing with her time, and that gap is part of its charm. We only know she has claimed the morning, and the speaker has let her.
The tone feels relaxed and a little wry. The gown suggests the speaker hasn't dressed or gone anywhere, and the newspaper is a modest consolation prize. Yet there is no real complaint here. The word "all" gives her morning a sense of generosity, as if the speaker is happy to step aside. The final word, "the paper," lands almost like a shrug, gentle and good-humored.
What the poem captures is a familiar kind of domestic ease: two people sharing a home, each taking a separate pocket of quiet. It suggests affection through what is left unsaid.