If anyone wants to go back and try to figure out how many secret societies Mrs. Teasdale is currently entangled in, please feel free. For my part, I'll exercise the better part of valor and move on to the next paragraph.
As for Grace's pregnancy, she found out about it at the end of that long, long November 10th, 2005 when a large portion of Book IX: Rhapsody took place. It's now the evening of December 15th, 2005 for Our Heroes, so we'll say she's into something like her sixth week.
Sixty-Five - Jitters