Dorothy had a lot of sadness and depression in the year or so following the birth of her son. She had to give the baby to her cousin, and worried about him, although she knew that Ivy was a loving and experienced foster mother.
She could not talk to anyone except Ivy about the baby, and her relationship with Bill had come to an end. He was unable to do anything to help financially and soon moved on to other relationships and Dorothy gave up hope that he would take any real interest in his son. She met John Cornous again, when he returned from America and for a time she wrote to him, as he was someone that she could talk to about her child. However Cornous was still a selfish and difficult man. He had married an American woman during his stay in the US and Dorothy was hurt that after his insistence that he did not believe in marriage, he had chosen to marry another woman.
Their correspondence was not very satisfying as he was annoyed that she had become Bill's mistress after refusing to be his.
During her pregnancy Dorothy had been working on her second Novel, Clouds of Witness, and had had to re write some of it, while very preoccupied with her personal problems but she was always a dedicated worker. The novel was much more emotional than her first, introducing the reader to Gerald, Peter's brother and Mary, his sister whose fiance was found dead. It covered the love affairs of Mary and Gerald, and culminated in a trial in the House of Lords.
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