He paused. There was one thing he had to know. He must get it out of her.
"It hasn't made you feel that you don't want it?"
"Oh--I don't know what I want--now. I don't know what it makes me feel!"
"Don't let it, Desmond. Don't let it. It'll be all right. You won't feel like that when you've married me. Can't you see that that's the wonderful and beautiful part?"
"What is?" she said in her tired drawl.
"It--the poor kiddy."
Because he remembered Veronica he was going to marry Desmond.
Veronica's mother was the first to hear about it. Desmond told her.
Veronica's mother was determined to stop it for the sake of everybody concerned.