Bragi nodded, feeling reassured that Miss Galloway did have some light in her life, and she was finding it in her burgeoning career.

He was about to ask how she’d found her calling in midwifery when suddenly he was distracted by some commotion along the path. A lady — still young, but older than the two teenagers — was taking a stroll alone in the park and had dropped her parasol. Upon leaning down to pick it up she’d found herself in tremendous difficulty — for she was extremely pregnant. She halted, leaning on her knees, breathless...