Before the appearance of Ned Shannon, there was nothing remarkable in Dorothy's life. When they met, Dorothy was already twenty-eight, Ned was thirty-two, and then it seemed to her that luck had finally turned her face. They loved each other so much that they seemed to form a single whole, which was impossible to separate. Dorothy's hopes collapsed with a deafening roar when it was discovered that Ned had an extremely negative attitude towards children. This happened just at the moment when she realized that she was pregnant...