Quoyle picked up his daughters from Dennis and Beety's house and they walked to the local inn where the aunt was staying. They all sat down together for dinner at the hotel's restaurant. The aunt admitted that even though she was enjoying some peace and quiet that she missed them all. Then she announced that she had been hired to restore the big cargo ship, the Rome, which had burned. However, the job would take her to St. John's, a town nearby. The aunt then asked Quoyle whether he was planning on staying or moving back to New York. He had no intention of going back and thought of himself there, and barely knew that man that took whatever came to him. While he and his aunt talked Bunny was making.....
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