"And the doctor kept using words I don't yet understand," Demelza admits, taking a sip of her water to give herself a moment to consider the things she needs to ask. Perhaps it's not fair to put this on Galen, but there are few people in Darrow she trusts as much as she does him. There are books, of course, and she's done a fair bit of reading on carrying a child, but there are more specifics they have mentioned that Demelza doesn't understand and she's not yet discovered in her reading.

"He was speaking of... of things t'be done after the baby is born," she tells him. "Ways to keep ourselves from having another baby if we don't want one and t'be honest I don't understand all of what he's saying. The doctor who helped me the evening when I was ill after work talked about it, too, but she didn't explain."