Chapter 8: The Vessel from Bombay Summary

September and October are clear. Greta, hoping for fog, asks her father if he thinks the fog will come soon. He replies that it probably will not. He adds that there is disappointment across the mountain. She doesn't respond but knows there is an understanding about Blue Cove between them. Blue Cove almost seems like a book she has read but that she hasn't been allowed to finish. Some time after that, she wakes up on a Saturday morning to a thick fog. She runs most of the way to Blue Cove and right into the Morrill's home, throwing herself into Mrs. Morrill's arms. Laura is surprised at Greta's display of affection. Greta always forgets that time is meaningless there. They probably think she'd been there the day before rather than that it has been...