Also the Hills Part V

Dexter is keeping busy with his farm, and he is not too happy to see Judith back to help Alix with her confinement. He feels that she has shown herself to be selfish, in messing him around. She also realises that he is falling in love with Alix and says so to him, rather spitefully. He is hurt, and feels that he has no hope with a beautiful girl like Alix and that at present, she is grieving for Jerome. Alix has her baby, a son and Judith is posted to North Africa. She enjoys her work, and meets up again with Joe Racina who is a war correspondent. But then she is injured by a bomb and left with severe burns on her fact and arms and hands. She is very ill and has to be flown home to the US for treatment. She can't hold things and her face is damaged. But she has plastic surgery and its believed that she will recover and her hands will get better, and her facial injuries will improve. Daniel and Serena have been through a lot of pain and suffering, losing 2 of their children and their third child being badly injured. However they tell themselves that they have Alix who is a lovely kindly young woman and they have a grandson. Daniel tells Serena that they must be prepared for Alix to find a new husband in due course. She is a young woman and she can't live on memories forever. Serena is a little amused at her unsophisticated farmer husband showing such worldly knowledge. Alix decides to go down South to see her own family for a visit. Dexter is upset at her going as she has a cousin, Prosper, who was considered as a possible husband for her and he's afraid that she will decide to marry him and go back to her home state to live, rather than spend all her life in the cold of New England. Judith has reconciled herself to the fact that she can never be an army nurse again and she and Joe Racina get married. He loves her and she him and they begin to write articles together, so she has found an occupation to make up for giving up her army work. Dexter's sister Rhoda gets married to her Jewish fiance, and Benny their adopted child, helps to flush out a German spy in the neighbourhood. It makes up a little for Jenness' disloyal behaviour that the village manages to get rid of one enemy of the US. Alix returns suddenly to the farm and tells Dexter that she would never have married Prosper. But she will marry him. Daniel and Serena have a party to celebrate the changes, good and bad that have taken place over the past couple of years. They have lost Jenness and Jerome but he has left a son behind him and Alix will stay at the farm.. and marry Dexter. Judith is recovering and has a new and loving husband. The neighbourhood has grown and taken in new people from different cultures and made friends of them.