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Serena Part 3, Chapter 22

Part 3, Chapter 22

Serena returns home sooner than expected. Even though the doctors want her to stay put, she insists on going home. No surprise there, really.
Everyone in the camp watches as she's carried into the house on a gurney, staring up at the sky.
She thinks about how some of their mothers, wives, and sisters died during childbirth and yet she survived.
At home, Galloway stands watch day and night, never wanting to leave Serena's side.
Pemberton tries to get her to take pain pills, but she refuses.
Instead she insists on Pemberton getting back to work so they don't fall behind on their plans.
She also begins putting together the details for Brazil. Serena is intent on going and begins making calls and sending telegrams to people who could partner with them.
Pemberton finally goes back to work—at his wife's insistence—and pays the bills. He notices a new name on his payroll: Jacob Ballard, age fifteen, and thinks of his own son.
For the first time since Serena's miscarriage, he looks at the photo of his son.
The workers are busy discussing an article in the local paper: Apparently Dr. Cheney was killed and they have no leads on the case.
We can read between the lines here and figure out that Galloway is to blame, but of course the workers don't know that.

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