Lost Angel 4

I almost forgot about this... Wow it's like the book wants me to complete it; I randomly open it, and it's on chapter 31 !
Anyway, this time, I'm blogging till Chapter 41!!! Here goes nothing :P

• Gertie's idea is opening a plant nursery. She promises to employ Doug, Ellen, and Percy
• Maureen still can't see them as her family
• Doug told Ellen about Gertie and Maureen and Ellen's new friend, Janet, pointed out to her that though they are different, they're still good people
• Hilda and Doug finally fill the gap between them and begin to get along again
• Gertie found a buyer and location for her plan; Billy came for a weekend visit and Ellen's feelings were rekindled
• Gertie gave Hilda an angel-shaped ornament, which Hilda's mother had loved and gave Ellen a new coat for her 16th bday. 
• Hilda, seeing her daughter so beautiful in the coat, finally began to acknowledge that she was becoming a young lady, but then Hilda immediately told herself that Ellen was still a long way away from meeting boys
• Hilda seems very picky about who she wants Ellen to marry; she doesn't approve of either billy or Percy
• Ellen, Janet, Percy, and Billy all go to the dance. on the walk home, Billy tricks Ellen; after Billy leaves, Ellen tries to act normally, but her inner turmoil constantly haunts her. she tells only Janet, who comforts her
• Billy marries Sheila, since Sheila is pregnant; and with this in mind, Ellen realizes she's pregnant too.  Though her there's something obviously wrong with her daughter, Hilda avoids a confrontation with Ellen, thinking if she said less, Ellen would get over what was troubling her.
• Ellen told her parents what happened, and they decided to take Gertie's job offer because it would help Ellen. When Mabel and her family found out about Ellen and Billy, Percy offered to marry Ellen on the condition that Billy never knew the child was his.
• After things had settled down, and Percy and Ellen, and Doug and Hilda moved in Surrey to work with Gertie.
• To Hilda, the move had taken them away from London's 'bad charm'; she also believed that the angel-statue was 'watching over' them.
• Ellen was relieved that she didn't have to become a burden on her parents as a single mother, but she still had two worries regarding her marriage: one, she was afraid that since her marriage had so far been platonic, Percy would cease to love her as much as he did; and two, she couldn't see how Percy would ever be able to be a father to her child
• Valerie, their neighbor, seemed to know about the spiritual issues Ellen had always wondered about and pursued. Val claimed that Ellen would have a girl and she would have a boy

Questions:

1. How does Hilda's faith transition from a non-believer, to believing in an angelic statue? What does each faith have in common?
2. Do you think Billy will be able to sense that the child is his? Will Percy be able to love the baby, though it's his brother's son?

From now on, all I'm eating is CELERY !

Blogging... How I've missed you !!

So.. as a me-comeback :P I'm posting interesting facts :)

• The term rule of thumb comes from the old English law that men couldn't beat their wives with anything wider than their thumb.
• Less than one percent of people who entered Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp survived, after being liberated by the Russians in 1945.
• American poet Edgar Allan Poe was once thrown out of West Point Academy in 1831 after showing up for inspection stark naked.
• A monkey's skull wrapped in leather and paper was used as a soccer ball in the very first World's Cup Soccer Championships in Uruguay.
• Ants never sleep in their whole life.
• A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.
• The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph. 
• Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a stage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• A man was arrested and charged with the robbery—of vending machines. The man posted bail, entirely in quarters.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 
• Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
• Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.
• Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" 
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
• Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.
• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
• In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
• All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."