Brianna decides against an abortion, and Claire is very relieved
Jamie says he’s had word out all over the Cape Fear valley as far as New Bern and Edenton and even into Virginia and Charleston
One day with still no word about Roger Wakefield, Brianna walks in on Ian and her mother discussing how it was Uncle Jamie’s idea to have Ian propose marriage to his cousin. She rushes to find her father and demands to know why he put Ian up to such a thing. They get into a great fight, him saying he’s thought of every eligible bachelor in the county before settling on Ian and is furious that Brianna would rather shame herself by bearing a child without a husband. He tells her if she won’t have Ian, then choose someone herself. She says if she can’t have Roger, she’ll have no one. She calls her father a bastard, and he says she’s the one with a fatherless child in her belly and that the people will call her a whore to her face. The fight continues until the two storm off.
Claire suggests Brianna draw Roger, and she does
During dinner, the two ignore each other and after Brianna noisily works the spinning wheel to annoy Jamie, who goes outside with Claire. When he returns he apologizes to his daughter and says he was wrong. She says it’s all right and apologizes in return. She says she knows he meant well, but she has to wait for Roger. Jamie points out he might have met with an accident or something and Bree insists if he were dead, she’d know.
Jamie gets the idea to draw up a broadsheet, and he’ll take it immediately to Wilmington to be printed and that Ian and the boys will distribute it up and down the coast from Charleston to Jamestown. He asks her for a description of Roger and when she tells him, Ian looks up surprised. Continua a leggere “Brianna decides against an abortion, and Claire is very relieved” →
