Possible Clues:

• Condition when expecting girl to follow quiet short boy
• The carrying of a child
• Some months before the new issue is due?
• Period carrying a child
• Start of parenthood: man and woman having swell time?
• Interesting condition for girl after lodger's gone round about
• Pressure on man and woman to create this expectation?
• The girl at last is expecting
• This has the girl at last in the family way