Chapter 31 Summary

Stephanie remains without a job and resorts once more to making and selling liquor. She is caught, brought before the magistrate and for the twelfth time is sentenced to two weeks in prison. The magistrate, however, requests a meeting with Japie and Pieter's mother and Tante Sophie (the latter two because they are involved in the Women's Welfare Society). They decide that it is time to take away Stephanie's child.

Around the same time, Tante Sophie discovers that Jakob has bought stamps for his son's upcoming birthday--no ordinary stamps, but the set of four Cape triangulars costing thirty-two pounds.

Returning from prison, Stephanie is told that her child is to be taken away. While in the location, the lieutenant is called to the old woman Esther's house, but it is Stephanie who is waiting there. She tells him that her child has been...