 Despite this trauma , Quatermass continues with his space programme , and by Quatermass II ( 1955 ) is actively planning the establishment of Moon bases . In this serial we see his daughter , Paula Quatermass , who works as an assistant at the Rocket Group , but there is no sign of a wife or other children . In the fourth episode of the serial he mentions that he never reached his twenty @-@ fifth wedding anniversary , tying in with The Quatermass Memoirs ' later assertion of his wife 's early death . 
