Warleggan interrogates the doctor about the physical characteristics of a full-term infant versus a pre-term infant. George Warleggan asks for a meeting with local physician Daniel Behanna, who was the attending physician at the birth of Valentine Warleggan.The main events of Book One are the election of George Warleggan to Parliament, the birth of Morwenna's child, the marriage of Dwight and Caroline Enys, Drake Carne becoming a successful blacksmith, Hugh Armitage's courtship of Demelza, Sam Carne falling in love with Emma Tregirls and Ossie Whitworth taking up a sexual relationship with his 14-year-old sister-in-law Rowella. Morwenna's husband has sex with her 14-year-old sister.
Demelza has a lover, Hugh Armitage, who dies.
Elizabeth confronts George over his suspicions. George Warleggan and Ross Poldark are both elected to Parliament. It was published in 1976, thirty-one years after the first novel in the series. The Four Swans is the sixth of twelve novels in Poldark, a series of historical novels by Winston Graham.
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