But she would have to wait until she became of age to do this.
The birth of Sarah's boy affected Zoe profoundly.

She was now about two months advanced in her own pregnancy.

She was beginning to think of the ordeal herself, of the fate of the child, what it was being born to....
What, indeed?
I noticed that Zoe had hours of deep depression.

Would it not be best for me to have a woman in the house with Zoe?
Mrs.Engle knew of a widow about fifty whose husband had been killed in the War of 1812.

And I got her, a Mrs.Brown.Zoe was now free of the housework.
She had a companion when I was away on my work about the farm.