Three weeks later when Charmaine was stabbed just after one O'clock one Saturday morning at a dance in New Kingston, Queenie panicked and decided to get rid of William. She located an old photograph of her mother which she always kept and decided that it was as much an evil omen as William was. On the back of the photograph she wrote 'William' then she pushed it in the tope on his little head. She took him up and rushed out.
The idea of abandoning him was prominent in her mind. At first she had no idea how she would get rid of him. She had thought of leaving him in somebody's arm under the pretext of going off for a short while on urgent business. But she was afraid of being found out and of being publicly accused of trying to abandon her child.
Then she thought of the ideal place where she could abandon the baby and be certain that it would be taken care of. She caught a Jolly bus and went to the Kingston Public Hospital. She arrived at the hospital during visiting hours, left the baby in the bathroom of a ward and fled. That was the last time she saw her baby.
Charmaine did not last the week. She died from the multiple stab wounds she had received. Queenie did not go to the funeral. She kept the apartment for a while then she sold Charmaine's things and left for Montego Bay where she had heard the occupation was more profitable. After ten years there she moved to Ocho Rios where she continued in the occupation and was more or less a loner.