Dora meets Agnes in Putney – they
like each other. Copperfield goes to Canterbury to the Doctor’s house to find
Heep, Mr Wickfield and the Doctor being told she is having an affair with
Maldon.
Copperfield
gets a letter from Mrs Micawber saying that Micawber is changed and is cold
towards his children.
CHAPTER 43 – ANOTHER RETROSPECT
Dora and Copperfield move to a cottage
in Highgate and his aunt moves close by. Copperfield is starting to get regular
stories published in a magazine and making a regular income. Traddles presents
his fiancé – Sophy. Copperfield and Dora marry.
CHAPTER 44 – OUR HOUSEKEEPING
The
housekeeper – Mary Anne Paragon is useless, so Copperfield suggests that Dora
sack her, and she says that she couldn’t and starts crying.
Betsey
Trotwood tells him not to argue and concentrate on Dora’s good points and not
the bad ones. Copperfield apologises. They sack the housekeeper.
Traddles is
invited to supper, but the food is a disaster.