Ethan's frustration over having the quadruplets taken over by Masters is soothed by telling his wife she's finally pregnant, but he can't handle Virginia's hard-to-get arrogance. Virginia's penniless ex George Johnson, father of rascal Henry, invites himself to her place and, beyond hope, bed when expelled by his landlord, then joins the study as volunteer under an alias, which she spills to Masters. Wiliam is far from amused that his wife invited his widowed mother Estabrooks Masters and invites his colleagues to a party in her honor, and worse: she wants to move into St.Louis.
—KGF Vissers