Although having planned otherwise, Ginny sees little of Jess after the Lutheran Church supper fight. She finds him changed, uncertain. She cannot think of him without thinking of her room, and she cannot think of that without remembering her father. She does not tell Rose, because she cannot bear looking further into her memories.
Harold decides to side-dress his corn, perhaps just to drive his new shiny red tractor along the Cabot Road side of his field. He does not wear the customary goggles and accidentally sprays himself in the face with anhydrous ammonia. Harold staggers to the water tank on his tractor, but it is empty. A neighbor sees him rocking in his field, kneeling, hands over his face, and takes him to the house, where he rinses his eyes, too.....
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