For the 3rd time that day, Nellie Lovett threw up. She had been feeling ill for quite some time now and she knew what she had to do. She needed to take a pregnancy test. GOD, she hoped to GOD she wasn't pregnant. It was the worst possible time and the worst possible situation.
You see, not long ago, Nellie had been drunk and she made a mistake. It wasn't a little mistake. It was a big mistake. She had put something in Benjamin Barker's drink and when he was unconscious she slept with him. GOD, if she were pregnant that would mean that Benjamin Barker, the husband of her best friend and the man she loved was the father of her baby.
She went to the store and got the test. Minutes tick, tock(ed) by . Finally the test was over. Positive. Nellie sighed and made a resolve.
For the sake of Lucy, for the sake of Benjamin and for the sake of Johanna she wouldn't tell. Nine months later she gave birth to a little boy. She named him Tobby. For his sake she gave him to the orphanage. It wouldn't be until years later she would see him again.