![]() Marta returns home and advises her daughter that Moorhead feels the girl should write about what she knows best. Marta then takes some of her stories to famed author and gourmand Florence Dana Moorhead and convinces her to read them. Katrin is dejected when she receives her tenth literary rejection letter. One year later, they are seen on a park bench with their baby in a baby carriage. Trina marries Peter Thorkelson in the Hanson's parlor. After enjoying a final drink with his niece and Jessie, Uncle Chris dies peacefully in bed. He also reveals he is married to his housekeeper Jessie. He reveals he has no money to leave his niece because he has been donating his income to help children with leg or foot problems walk again. Marta learns Uncle Chris is near death, and she takes Katrin to say goodbye. After taking a few sips of the "adult" beverage, Katrin is overcome with emotion by her parents' gesture, and she rushes out of the room. Katrin's father presents her with her first cup of coffee, which she had been told she could drink once she was a grown-up. Marta then gives the brooch to Katrin as a graduation present. Distraught, Katrin performs badly in the play and later retrieves the brooch after trading back the dresser set. As she is about to leave to perform in the school's production of The Merchant of Venice, Katrin learns (from a resentful Christine) that her mother traded her heirloom brooch for the gift. Katrin brags to Christine that their mother is going to buy her the dresser set she has long admired as a graduation present. Sigrid and Jenny are furious but as Marta tears up the worthless piece of paper, she declares that Hyde's gift of literature is far more valuable than the money itself. The family's initial joy of receiving the large rent payment quickly vanishes once they discover that the check has no value. Hyde suddenly and quietly moves out, leaving his classic books and a check for his accumulated months of rent. Instead of killing the cat, the dose of chloroform that Marta had administered only provided the cat with the deep sleep it needed to aid its recovery. The following morning, she is astonished when Dagmar walks in with an apparently cured cat. Despite Dagmar's belief in her mother's healing powers, Marta feels helpless to save the cat and sends Nels to buy chloroform so she can euthanize it. ![]() When Dagmar returns home, she learns her cat, Uncle Elizabeth, had been mauled and seriously injured during its outside wanderings. ![]() Disguised as a member of the housekeeping staff, she sneaks into Dagmar's ward and softly sings to her. Dagmar's operation is a success, but Marta is prohibited from seeing her. When Chris discovers Dagmar is ill with mastoiditis, he insists on taking her to the hospital. Later, the family is visited by Marta's gruff but soft-hearted Uncle Chris and his housekeeper Jessie Brown, who is secretly his wife. When Jonathan Hyde, the Hansons' impoverished lodger, reads A Tale of Two Cities aloud for the family, they are deeply moved by the story. When Marta threatens to reveal embarrassing anecdotes about them, the women accept their sister's decision. Marta's sister Trina arrives, announces she is marrying undertaker Peter Thorkelson, and implores Marta to break the news to their sisters Sigrid and Jenny. ![]() Each family member makes a financial sacrifice to contribute to the boy's education. As she reminisces about her family life, there is a flashback to 1910, where the first of a series of vignettes finds Marta Hanson preparing the weekly budget with her husband Lars, daughters Katrin, Christine and Dagmar, and son Nels, who announces his desire to attend high school. The film begins with eldest daughter Katrin completing the last lines of her autobiographical novel.
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