Summary

Cantor’s students begin to become more agitated. A boy named Kenny becomes hysterical with fear and anger. Cantor tries to calm him, but then Horace walks into view and approaches the playground. Kenny calls Horace unclean and accuses Horace of spreading polio. Cantor defuses the situation and again attempts to calm Kenny, but Kenny maintains that Horace must be spreading the disease. Later, as Cantor has dinner with his grandmother, he thinks about his mother and how little he really knows about her. He then thinks again about God and sees God as responsible for the ravages of the polio virus. His grandmother expresses concerns that he may be wearing himself out, busy as he is with work and with visiting the families of the students. She suggests that he take a few days off to relax on the shore away from...