What she was saying made perfect logical sense, but it was hard to feel disappointed about the prospect of losing a child he had never considered as even the slightest possibility before. It wouldn't be a serious detriment to them to get rid of this pregnancy, he reasoned — it would just put them back to square one. With or without this thing she had proposed with her sister, they were not entirely without resources, nor were they running out of time.

"The labor nearly killed you last time," he reminded her, rising from his desk chair.