This narration in this section is deliberately ambiguous. The wording suggests that Ralph and Undine are headed toward something inevitable, and at first, it sounds like it could be a divorce (and that the person that Undine consulted was a divorce lawyer). Undine’s hatred of herself in the mirror could be a hatred of the person she’s become in her marriage. As the novel goes on, however, it becomes clear that Undine is pregnant and that the person she consulted was a doctor. She hates herself in the mirror and her new clothes because she is gaining weight from pregnancy.