Matilda’s mom is starting to get scared and worried about her daughter, she consider to leave town to go to Virginia. Family friends start getting sick and a more and more people are leaving. Matilda isn’t worried so much compared to everyone else, she is just upset that they might sell the coffee shop. Her cook Eliza helps out majorly when her mom starts getting sick. They do not know if she has yellow fever yet, but it takes a major turn on Matilda. Matilda needs to become more responsible cause her mother is ill. The doctor comes to the coffee shop to check Lucille, Mattie’s mom. He announces that Lucille has yellow fever. The mom and grandfather make a quick decision and decides to send Mattie and her grandfather to Virginia. Matilda is