Following Adam's advice, Ned and Mollie go to Europe. But since Mollie is four months pregnant, they go to England, where they trust the doctors, rather than France or Italy. Ned searches the places where his father hsd been, but finds little trace of him. Mollie weakens as the baby grows, and has to take to bed. Ned takes an acting engagement in London, but the British are hostile, since the U.S. Navy has boarded a British ship and taken off two Southern rebels who were heading to England to convince the Queen to support the Confederacy. Mollie gives birth to Edwina. They take a brief tour of France, then return to America. Mollie is too delicate to return to New York, so they take a house in Dorchester, outside Boston. Ned is there when Wilkes plays Boston, with great success, turning staid Brahmin women into romantic fools.