This chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, where we learn that the Duchess is pregnant with her first child. The flashback shows the Duchess's reaction to her father's decision to marry her to the Duke of Abergavenny. The Duchess realizes that her father has forced her to marry the man who abducted her beloved cabbage from the market place. She realizes that the marriage is invalid, and she begs her father to come and take her away from the Duke
This chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, where we learn that the Duchess is pregnant with her first child. The flashback shows the Duchess's reaction to her father's decision to marry her to the Duke of Abergavenny. The Duchess realizes that her father has forced her to marry the man who abducted her beloved cabbage from the market place. She realizes that the marriage is invalid, and she begs her father to come and take her away from the Duke