Pages 66-84 Summary:

• After killing the Dog Ben kills the neighborhood cat, Mr. McGregor. The family is nervous to leave their kids around Ben in fear of him hurting them also. Ben was emotionless, he just sat around watching the children interact but showed no signs. He wasn’t lonely, jealous, upset; he was just unaffected by anything. Paul was sent to the nursery, so he was kept away from Ben. Fewer people started visiting the Lovatt’s house leaving the house empty without the family. Harried still tried to reach out to Ben to see what he was really thinking. He started talking saying things like “I want cake”, yet still watching the children. He studied their actions, reactions, and their expressions. When the family comes over they reach a decision that Ben should be sent to a institution since he isn’t behaving better. Harriet doesn’t agree to it, she says she needs to hear that Ben isn’t normal from a doctor. The family agrees to pitch in so they can send Ben to an institution. Frederick and Molly agree to look for an institution where Ben can be put in. Harriet still refuses saying that Ben’s her child and David says he’s certainly not his. Ben is sent to the institution the next day and the children start living happier. But Harriet feels guilty and horrified that she gave up on Ben. One day she decided that she had to go visit Ben to see how he was holding up. Even though David opposes to it, she says that she has to. When she went to the institution she see’s that there were all types of children with all types of problems. There were kids there that looked worse than Ben who were on bed’s. They looked like they were on the verge of dying. Harried realized that the people “doctors” who work there experimented on the children to see what goes wrong. When she saw Ben she suddenly saw that he looked ordinary like everyone else. She simply couldn’t leave him in the institution to die. She, in the end, told the doctors that she’s taking her son home. She took the medicine that the doctors gave him which controls his strength and calms him down.