When Will It Stop?

The next in my series of the women in Erik (The Phantom of the Opera's) life. This is his mother, Madeleine, still pregnant with him, the evening after her husband has died. According to Susan Kay, she was struck with a series of tragedies one after another; her parents' death to cholera, then her husband's death due to an accident on a building site. Poor Madeleine has no idea that even now a so-called "monster" is growing in her belly.