Dr. Wintermute
- Clara's governess comes to Dr. Wintermute and asks him to look in on Clara because she won't stop crying.
- He's exhausted and doesn't want to deal with his troublesome family, so he says that maybe Clara should cry herself to sleep. The governess tells him that she doesn't like how Clara looks.
- This immediately makes him panic, worrying that Clara might fall ill or, worse, die like all of her siblings.
- He goes upstairs and finds Clara sobbing in bed, with grief written all over her face. She's obviously completely beside herself.
- When he asks what's wrong, she tells him that her mother told her that she thought Clara had a heart of stone and that she would never forgive her for laughing.
- Clara says her mother only loves the Others—the children who have died—and that she should have died instead of Charles Augustus. He should have been the one who lived instead of her.
- Dr. Wintermute feels bad because he's actually thought this before—that he would have preferred for Charles Augustus to live—but, of course, he doesn't say anything. He just tells his daughter to stop crying and says that her mother will forgive her in time.