Chapter 24 Summary

The scene begins with children playing and Jennifer speaking to Mrs. Haddington. There is again hostility between the two women, although it is not intensely malicious as before. Molly has a baby son named Sam, and as Mrs. Haddington had now recovered, she is fully fit to spoil him. Molly is unsure whether the baby was Sam's or Trevor's, but she decides that this does not matter. Trevor was hopeful of having Molly upon learning of Sam's death, while Jennifer was fearful. The animosity between Molly and Jennifer settles, however.

Molly is back in Doncaster, and she rents her former home. Sam had taken no life insurance, and Molly writes a cheeky letter to the Russian Embassy for a settlement, to which she receives no reply. Molly learns that she is pregnant on the day of Sam's funeral.

Molly becomes engaged to Monk...