Holiday

David comes home for holiday. Meets his new baby brother, enjoys time with mother, the baby, and Peggotty, but the Murdstones are awful, cruel to both David and to Clara. They treat her like a child and won't let her love her son, won't let David hold his baby brother, and won't allow Clara to defend David, which makes David feel abandoned. In his last memory of her as he's leaving in the cart back to school, she is desperately standing at the gate with the baby saying good-bye. He never sees her alive again.