Part Two: Chapters 10 - 12 Summary

In the wake of yet another miscarriage, Isabel is particularly depressed, sitting alone near the cliffs or keeping watch over the tiny grave. When she hears the sounds of a baby crying in the wind, she is sure that it's her imagination. It isn't until Tom shouts for her, shouts that there's a baby in a boat, that Isabel snaps back to reality. She snatches the baby from Tom, rushes it inside, bathes it, and wraps it in a blanket. Isabel is overwhelmed with emotion seeing the tiny baby nestled in her arms, just two weeks after her most recent miscarriage. While Isabel bathes and coddles the baby, Tom sits in the lighthouse wondering how to phrase the incident in his logbook. The baby had been found, wrapped in a woman's cardigan, in a boat with a...