Debbie: You'll never guess what.
Ruth: What?
Debbie: You know that Abigail from Chalfont?
Ruth: The one whose father is a pastor?
Debbie: Yeah. That one. You won't believe it, but she is pregnant.
Ruth: You are joking?  
Debbie: I'm not. She is showing already.
Ruth: Of course, her parents are never going to let her have an abortion, so that's it for her, game over.
Debbie: and the shame for them, him being a pastor and everything. Word is, he will have to give up being a pastor as he didn't bring his kids up right.  So they are going to be out of the house they have, he isn't really trained for anything else, it's a complete disaster.
Ruth: Bloody hell, I feel bad for them. Can't the church help them out a bit? Its not very Christian, is it, just chucking him out.
Debbie: I agree. They say he has brought scandal but they are the ones who are making this a scandal.
Ruth: Silly girl, though. She's caused no end of trouble. Who's the father anyway?
Debbie: You know Trevor. She has been seeing him for a while. Only in secret as her dad wouldn't let her go out with anyone.
Ruth: Is he standing by her?
Debbie: Yes, he wants to do the decent thing and he says he wants to marry her, but his family are all upset because he was supposed to be going to Uni and now he won't be able to. He will have to start work. His dad will give him a role in his buidling firm as an apprentice.
Ruth: It is a waste of his career.
Debbie: Some people say he is lucky. Abigail is a very nice girl, they clearly do love each other, and he was going to do a useless degree on history and now he will learn to build houses and end up with no student debts and probably as rich as his own dad in ten years from now.
Ruth: Really? So Abigail probably made a logical move then.
Debbie: I doubt she was thinking with her brain, but in fact it should be ok  for her. Its her family and her old man not having a job because of it which is the one to be pitied, I suppose.
Ruth: Maybe Trevor's dad will be able to give Abigail's Dad a job as well?
Debbie: Her mother earns quite well as a bookkeeper, so maybe they will be OK, but it is sad that he won't be able to work at his calling any more.
Ruth: They should just send him to be pastor in a new place, where nobody will hear of this.
Debbie: Yeah. Like the Outer Hebrides. 
Abigail is pregnant. The church may force her father out of his position as a pastor because of it. Abigail's baby's father is Trevor. Trevor wants to marry Abigail. Trevor won't go to college and his father will give him a job at his construction company. Abigail's mom earns well as a bookkeeper. 