Chapter 16 Summary

Ursula discovers that she is pregnant. This makes her very nervous and she is not sure what she should do about it. Ursula begins to sympathize with her mother in the connection to pregnancy. She decides that the only thing she can do is write to Anton and tell him that she wants to marry him and wants to go to India. She writes Anton, asking to join him in India, but he does not reply.

While walking in the woods, she is surrounded by stampeding horses. The physical strain leaves her ill for many weeks and causes a miscarriage. She is sick for a long time, and therefore has a lot of time to think about her life. She comes out of the situation with new independence and begins her life again. On her recovery, she sees a rainbow that gives her...