He was confused, upset but most of all worried. His wife had just had to undergo emergency surgery, a part of which he'd had to perform, and as a result she'd never be able to have any more children. Gordon sat in his consulting room, it was past 7pm and he knew that he would shortly have to go to his wife's beside. One thing puzzled him, it seemed that Jill had known she was pregnant so why hadn't she told him? Was he really that much of a rubbish husband? Surely she'd of been excited at the prospect of another child, he certainly would have been. But now miscarried; an ectopic pregnancy in fact, which had led Mr Rose to perform an urgent hysterectomy.
Gordon didn't know how he was going to tell his wife the truly heartbreaking news. She was aware she'd had an ectopic pregnancy. They were the words she'd cried to him shortly before surgery, but she didn't know about the hysterectomy. He guessed, even though she'd hidden the news of the pregnancy from him, that really she had wanted another baby together, they both had. After the birth of Jonathon, Gordon hadn't seen Jill so full of life before; she happily settled into her role as a new mother. In the first few months of Jonathon's life there had been brief mentions of having another baby but then it tailed off. Had Jill decided that one child and two step children was enough?