Her eyes blinded with tears. "But I done it," she cried. "I hug-danced. I didn’ tell her. I done it in Sallisaw. Me an’ Connie…She says I’ll drop the baby…She knowed two girls los’ their baby right in this here camp."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 22. An emotional Rose of Sharon is terrified that she will lose her baby. She has taken to heart the rantings of religious zealot Mrs. Sandry who claims that two camp girls have lost babies through sin. There is foreshadowing here of Rose of Sharon’s eventual stillbirth.