Episone 9 - Teddy's secret

At about the same time as Dorothy was negotiating with the girl at the Social Services office, Cleo was sitting in her office reading her emails. Dorothy phoned through on her mobile to confirm that there was indeed a baby hatch in Upper Grumpsfield. She was waiting for the next bus and would come straight to the office.

Episode 8 - Tango

On a day overshadowed by grim suspicions of child abuse and bartering, back at the cottage for lunch Cleo spent quite a long time searching for loopholes in her theory about the purported ongoing subversive trading in babies, but even in the chat-rooms she entered online with a false name and giving her age as 15 and her condition as 8 months pregnant, the advice offered was not very helpful. It seemed as though girls in that predicament did not share their worries online.

Episode 7 - Dorothy goes for a walk

Robert had been asleep when Cleo got back from the Singleton cottage, so Cleo and he talked about the previous night’s events at breakfast early on Wednesday morning, Cleo having made a special effort to get up at the crack of dawn. She phoned Dorothy and asked her if she could come for a quick coffee seven thirty, an hour Dorothy found unusual for Cleo who liked her mornings to start gently and late. Realizing that something must be afoot, she was standing on Cleo’s doorstep within fifteen minutes.