Summary

THE NEXT DAY GLORY WENT TO THE HARDWARE STORE

Glory buys Jack some real work clothes that fit him instead of her father’s old hand me downs. He is grateful and asks her if she was ever able to forgive the fiancé. Glory says that she doubts it, that she had learned that he was really already married, and so he had lied to her and used her to get all of her money. Jack shares that he doesn’t see how Della could forgive him, but when Glory presses him for details he clams up.

Jack plays ball with Ames’s boy, Robby, in Ame’s front yard so that they can keep an eye on them both. A few days later when he goes back to play catch with Robby, Lila, the Reverend’s wife, asks him to stay for dinner...