Macon has pretty well moved into Muriel's house now. It happened bit by bit, a few shirts, shaving gear, until the final vestige of his life... Edward. Muriel, Alexander, Edward, and Macon form an odd little family. Macon makes breakfast every morning and fixes things around the house. Alexander has a playmate and someone to welcome him home from school with cookies and milk probably for the first time in his life.
One morning after a particularly heavy snowfall, Baltimore is silent and frozen and the little family is cocooned inside when Charles knocks at the door. Charles had a hard time finding the house but he needed to tell Macon that his neighbors called to say that apparently some pipes had frozen and burst in his house because they could see water running.....
