Miranda has a lovely summer, some of it spent at Karen's and some in Italy and some at home.
She shows up with Karen at the train platform and they look for Minor.
"- probably - " he reads them - "yeah. These two you'd feed the baby, this one I think you have to take every day for it to work..."
"About that last, it's a bit late to be very worried about sinning very much but I think it's against my religion."
"Ooh -" She attempts to put Catherine in the crib. Catherine fusses. Rebecca picks her up again, props her up on one shoulder, and plays one-handed. She's rusty but knows what she's doing.
"Sure - they're not as fragile as they seem really, it's only you have to keep track of their heads or they flop -" She demonstrates various angles at which Catherine can be held.
"There you go, you'll get used to it more with practice." And now she has two piano-ing hands.
She gets to the end of her piece and starts over again, playing a little faster and more smoothly.
Catherine will, eventually, tolerate being set down to sleep in her crib. They watch her breathing quietly for a while, and then he picks up Rebecca and tugs her into bed and kisses her hungrily.
Rebecca is really into the kissing but awkward about the hungry. There are conflicted noises.
"Uh, the last time I got into bed with a guy intending just to fool around I wound up in a convent and you do seem very serious about the marrying me thing buthavenotdoneityet."