Chapter 46 Summary

Dick and his family enjoy living with Eddie, and during the first months of winter Spartina proves profitable. Finally, in January, Dick tells May about his affair with Elsie. May is in the garden at their house and she and Dick begin talking of the bad things that happened the last few months, and how they had profited from them just enough to get the boat done. May asks if Schuyler was the reason that Elsie fell overboard from Parker's boat when they were filming. He says no, then mentions that Elsie is going to have a baby. May seems to know immediately what he is talking about, and says, "Is it your baby?" Dick tells her it is. Then, May asks how an upper class lady, who has gone to two colleges, could make the mistake of getting pregnant.

After they eat...