Summary

THE NEXT MORNING THE MAIL

Glory goes out the next morning to get the mail and finds four of Jack’s letters to Della marked Return to Sender. She knows that he will be devastated. He eventually sees the letters, and it is as if all of the air goes out of him. Glory says that he seems lost. He tells her that if any others come back marked like this that she should just burn them.

The Reverend figures out that Jack’s change in demeanor is due to a woman, and he corners Glory about it. She tells him what she can, and he tries to talk to Jack about it. Jack refuses, saying that his problems are his own. The next day the Reverend asks Glory to take him to visit Ames. She drives them over in the car. They talk...