Part 4: Any House - Florida Summary

Alice is visiting Uncle Billy and Aunt Frances who are now both very elderly. They have moved from their lakeside home and permanently live in Arizona. Uncle Billy has trouble breathing and cannot join Alice and Aunt Frances on a jeep tour of the surrounding land. While Alice and Aunt Frances spend the day together, Frances confides in Alice that she misses Uncle Billy. Later that night, Alice notices how Uncle Billy and Aunt Frances talk to each other and pat each other's hands affectionately, and she is convinced that they are in love.

Alice describes Mr. Early's enthusiasm when he taught her high school English class. As an English teacher herself, she has inherited his duties to instill a love of literature into her own students. This is not a burden for Alice, she...