Part I, Pages 53 through 94 Summary

In Sugar and Spice, Chris and Cathy arrive home after having an evening out and Bart overhears an argument over Cathy's plea to adopt the two-year-old daughter of her student. The argument grows heated with Chris saying that Cathy should allow the child to be adopted by someone who "doesn't have as much to lose" if an adoption agency investigates the couple. Cathy counters, saying that Chris has always gotten his own way, and accuses him of saying that Paul Sheffield - Cathy's second husband and the man she's claimed is Bart's father - was healthy enough for sex.

Cathy's tirade continues, with her "berating" both for "what they were doing." Cathy also says that she would never have gone to Bart except that Chris was continually trying to come between Cathy and Paul. Chris says that...