Gino Carella Timeline and Summary

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• When Gino and Philip meet for the first time in Monteriano, Gino is on his best behavior, but Philip is not impressed.
• Philip tries to bribe Gino to break off his engagement to Lilia, but Gino bursts out laughing, declaring that they have already gotten married.
• Gino finds the situation so humorous that he playing pushes Gino and runs off to share the joke with his wife.
• Once Lilia and Gino have settled into married life in their new home in Monteriano, Gino lazes around the house, doing next to nothing.
• Worried that people will think that he doesn't know how to control his wife, Gino tries to exert more authority around the house. For starters, he forbids Lilia to take walks on her own since in Italy, women aren't permitted to take walks unaccompanied.
• When Lilia finds out that Gino has been cheating on her, she is convinced that her marriage can only be saved if she bears Gino a son.
• But Lilia dies during childbirth and Gino is left to raise his son by himself.
• Back in England, Irma starts receiving postcards from her "lital brother" (aka Gino who is writing for his son). News spread through Sawston of Lilia's baby, and to prevent gossip, Mrs. Herriton sends Philip and Harriet to Italy to persuade Gino to part with his son so that the Herritons can raise him in England.
• At an opera performance of Lucia di Lammermoor, Gino runs into Philip, Harriet, and Miss Abbott. Gino happily agrees to meet with Philip the next day.
• The following morning, Gino is visited by Miss Abbott, who he wasn't expecting. Gino playfully cuddles his son, and Miss Abbott is moved by cute father and son dynamics.
• Gino begins to make a bath for the baby, and Miss Abbott offers to help—she feels strangely elated bathing the baby. Gino marvels at Miss Abbott's gentleness with the child, adding that he's planning to marry again.
• Miss Abbott expresses her disapproval, but Gino explains that he wants to have someone who will help him care for the baby.
• Philip walks in on Gino and Miss Abbott playing with the baby together. Miss Abbott rushes off in embarrassment, and Philip and Gino sit down to discuss business. The meeting doesn't go as Philip hopes: Gino still refuses to be parted from his son.
• A series of unfortunate and disastrous events take place: Harriet kidnaps Gino's son, but the carriage is overturned, and the poor baby is killed.
• Philip goes to break the news to Gino, who is so grief-stricken and angry that he attacks Philip. Gino twists Philip's arm and tortures him until Philip faints.
• Miss Abbott arrives to intervene between the two men. She manages to reconcile them by having Gino and Philip share a bottle of milk that had been intended for the baby.
• With Miss Abbott's help, Gino comes to forgive Harriet and Philip, and they part on friendly terms. Philip learns from a letter that Gino still plans on getting married because the engagement has gone too far for him to break things off.