"Lucy, darling, are you quite alright?" The concerned Benjamin asked his wife.

"It's just a bug, nothing to fret over sweetheart," came her lit of a reply.

"Well, you rest today and I'll head into the market to get some flowers, I'll bring Johanna as well, the ride could get her over for her nap," Benjamin told Lucy with a smile.

"You are an angel sent from heaven," Lucy's blue eyes glittered back at him.

"I've only ever met one angel, and she sits before me now," Benjamin leaned down to kiss his wife which she whole heartedly returned.

When they eventually pulled away, Benjamin stood up and made for the door.

"I'll be back soon, do try to get to sleep, I love you," he said back to her.

"I love you too," Lucy replied before her husband left the room.

Benjamin made his way down the rickety stairs of the pie shop to the crib where his daughter slept, she lay awake, almost like she was waiting for someone. She giggled a childish giggle when her father came into view.

"Hello sweetie poppet," Benjamin cooed at Johanna. She waved her tiny legs and fists in the air, begging to be picked up, which her father happily obliged. He bounced her around and lifted her high in the air while she shrieked with joy.

"Looks like you were always destined to be a father, Mr Baker," his landlady, Mrs Lovett had entered the room and had watched the display of fatherly affection, but deep down secretly wished he was her husband and was spinning round their child.

"I hope I can be a good father to her," he replied, kissing Johanna's soft blonde tuffs of hair.

"Yourself and Miss Lucy are the best parents anyone could ask for," she smiled but inside she was fuming, how she hated Lucy so, if she wasn't there then maybe she would have had a chance with Benjamin.

"Thank you, Mrs Lovett, you're a good friend to me, I'm going out to get some flowers for the parlour, just to brighten up the room, Lucy has a bug of some kind and will be staying in bed. Please take care of her while I'm gone, just for an hour or two, I know how busy you must be," Benjamin might as well have been asking her to rummage through the bins to find just the right kind of rotten eggs, and she would have done it. She would do anything for him, anything, she would kill for him and she would die for him. But he saw only his Lucy, his childhood sweetheart. He was blind to Mrs Lovett's affection toward him.

"I'll do my best, Mr Barker; bring me back a bag of flour will you?" She asked.

"Of course," he replied with a merry smile. After multiple failed attempts he managed to force Johanna into her bonnet while she squirmed. He plonked her into her pram and off he went on him merry way, leaving Mrs Lovett with the one person she despised the most.