Content with that promise, the doctor charged her for the consultation and the pills he promised to have a boy deliver along with a sheet of instructions, as soon as he got back to his office, and left.

Anne sat in the other room, feeling worse than before on account of running the Blackes into debt and the workhouse! Kate sat beside her, talking to her about any topic that popped up in her mind, in a desperate attempt to engage and distract her friend.