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He is still angry at being forced to give way and let his daughter get married. In the meantime, Mrs Fenner, now angry and desperate, goes to Mr Horridge, having learned that Marion is engaged to him. She tells him that she has seen letters that prove that Marion was married, but while he is uneasy, he refuses to believe her. He offers her some money, in exchange for a letter saying that what she had said about Marion was a lie and that she will never repeat it. Confused and angry, she writes the letter and takes the money, and decides to use it to buy out the house which she rents, so she will own the property and make more money out of it. Mr Horridge is upset by her outburst, half afraid that perhaps Marion isn't the angelic young woman he had fallen in love with but he tells himself that it is all a lie from an old woman trying to get some money. Mr Draper is seething with anger, and determined to upset Marion, even if he can't stop the wedding. He gets her alone and calls her Madame de Brissac. Startled, Marion tells him that she was never married to Johnny but she did get pregnant and have a miscarriage. He slaps her and shakes her angrily and she collapses and goes into a sort of catatonic state. Mr Draper, shaken, tells Ellen that Marion had a dizzy turn and fell and hit her head. THey get a doctor in, and Mr Horridge calls in a specialist, but noone can arouse Marion from her withdrawn state. She ends up in Heatherton, being nursed by Miss Rose, who is kind to her. However, Ellen achieves a liberation, when Marion is gone. The 2 servants they kept left at the same time, and then because they cant find servants for the house Ellen takes over cooking. She enjoys housekeeping and being active and she intends to keep her role as cook housekeeper, even if Papa does not like it and resolves to resort to sabotage if necessary. The book has a sad ending, with Marion forever in a a catatonic state, but shows how Victorian women had such narrow lives that even being a cook was a liberation for some of them. It also shows how desperate a girl like Marion was, knowing that marriage to a man who had a low paid job like Johnny was going to send her out into the world to work at some menial job, yet welcoming it, because she was so bored with her housebound life.