Summary

Chapter 13

Helen once again recounts some of White’s writing. He had finally learned that he couldn’t overfeed Gos. The hawk would fly to him when it was hungry. He tried to get Gos to perch on his arm, but Gos stubbornly refused. Helen began to focus on getting Mabel at the perfect weight for flight. Helen takes Mabel to the fields outside of Cambridge where she works. She recently turned down a job in Germany, claiming that it was because of her father. The truth was she didn’t want to go because all she could think about was getting Mabel to fly. She briefly thinks about how in two months she would lose her job, her money, and even her home, but she didn’t care about any of that. For a moment she doesn’t recognize the area around...