Pages 11-28 Summary:

• After realizing that Harriet was going to be pregnant, Harriet and David had to deal with the financial matters. They both knew they couldn’t afford the number of children they wanted. David had to request his father, James, to financially help their family. David and Harriet have Molly, his mother, and Friedrick, her second husband, come over to their house to discuss the situation. After hearing their decision on having numerous children, Molly doesn’t approve of it. She feels as if their still in their youth and they shouldn’t rush into it. After arguing about the situation Molly declares that the only way to financially support the family is to get help from James. Since it isn’t in David’s nature to ask for money, James felt obligated to help. After the first child, Luke, is born the family has a Easter party where all the families gather for the first time at the Victorian home. Harriet was pregnant with the second child, Helen, right after Luke was born. After Helen was born she was pregnant with her third child, Jane. Through this pregnancies Sarah and William were also pregnant with their fourth time, while dealing with their troubled marriage. However the Sarah gave birth to Amy, who had Down syndrome. Everyone looked at Amy different and Harriet felt sorrow for the abnormal baby. Harriet and David agreed to hold off having children for a while to take a break.