Kate agreed to be present with her daughter in her “period of confinement” but insisted on receiving pay for it. Annie grudgingly obliged, only to discover that her mother had taken the money and gone out “to get too much to drink.” “The result,” Annie commented, “caused unpleasantness . . . we did not part on very good terms.”13 Little more than a week after giving birth, Annie had thrown Kate out and decided she would have no more to do with her.
