Sadly and not to his credit as Gertrude is a very good person and wife, her increasingly withering arm causes her husband to lose his feelings of love and passion for her. Gertrude wants more than anything to find a cure for her arm. Several years go by and Gertrude begins to try folk ways of curing her arm. She has never been able to conceive a child and Mr Lodge is a harsh man who begins to feel it was a mistake to marry her and does little to hide his feelings. Over time Rhonda begins to develop almost an affection for Gertrude as she knows it is not the fault of Gertrude that Mr Lodge abandoned Rhonda and his probable son. Finally one day Rhonda suggests Mrs Lodge go see a conjurer, a practitioner of folk medicine. I will relay no more of the plot so as not to spoil it for others.