Pleasure Reading Part 5

Then Kitty met Waddington, a British deputy commissioner.  He further introduced her to the French nuns who were nursing  the sick and orphaned children of the cholera epidemic. Walter had immersed himself in the difficulties of managing the cholera crisis. His character was held in by the nuns and the native officials, due to his self-sacrifice and tenderness towards the suffering children. Kitty remained unable to feel attraction towards him as man and husband. Kitty met with the Mother Superior yet loved and respected. The nun allowed Kitty to assist in caring for the older children at the convent, but would not permited her to engage with the sick and dying. Kitty’s regard for her deepened and grew. Kitty discovered that she was pregnant and suspected that Charles Townsend was the father. Rather than  Walter answer to it she told him the truth  that she did not know. She could not  bring herself to deceive her husband again. Kitty had undergone a profound personal transformation. After that Walter felt ill in the epidemic, possibly through experimenting upon himself to find a cure for cholera and Kitty heard his last words.