Chapter 60: The advise.

"You're a stupid girl!"

"Mama—"

"An idiot!"

"But—"

"You should be going after the white man not that imbecile horse boy." The woman clicked her tongue turning to look away.

"I love him." Faith whispered.

"Because you're a fool! Get out of my sight. I do not want to hear about this your child either."

"Mama it's your grandchild..."

"Will it take me out of this gutter? It will be born and it will live in this gutter with the rest of us. Thought you young girls had learnt a little something from Elliot's wife...that got her freedom from giving birth to a..."

Faith sighed. "Elliot is a fool, always has been."

"Fools seem to know each other because you speak so knowingly of him."

"I'm already pregnant. Thomas is happy about the child."

"But is he happy with you?" The woman questioned.

Faith was silent.

"If he was, he would have came to see me. To apologize, to ask for your hand in marriage but no."

"He will...soon enough."