Joy Street Part VIII

Emily takes Simonetta in, and Roger goes to visit Nazareno Pacetti, Pell's uncle, who inherited the family restaurant. He is an agnostic and dislikes Carmela. The trial comes up, to contest the will and Roger is conscious that this is a very important case in his legal career since it is to help a friend. He cross examines Carmela, and she breaks down, and says that she is not the daughter of the man who reared her, Antonio Pacetti. Roger has found out that Carmela was registered as Pacetti's daughter and brought up by him and his wife, but she is actually the child of Luisa, one of Pacetti's Italian cousins, who became pregnant by someone before the family left Italy, and her cousin took the baby and registered her as his own, but his own wife was pregnant then with Adelina, Pell's mother so she could not be the mother of Carmela. The case ends in triumph for Roger and Pell as Carmela is proved to be lying. However when Roger gets back to Boston he is exhausted and ill, and collapses. Emily calls in a doctor who says it is pneumonia and its serious. Emily is happy that Roger is safely home and that he's won his case, and she tells him she has some news for him as well. After several years, she is finally pregnant. Roger is delighted but he is very ill and he dies within a few days.