Chapters 5 - 8 Summary

Lily spends two days looking or the mysterious Albert in chapter five. At one point, she even tries to disguise herself by wearing a sailor hat, sunglasses and lipstick. Lily spots Albert on a couple of different occasions but never manages to get close enough to Albert to have a conversation.

Lily rows the rowboat to the train station to meet her father. Poppy is coming to Rockaway for the weekend. Lily looks forward to her father's arrival. When Poppy arrives, he and Lily row back to Gram's house on the canal. Lily looks forward to spending the next day out on a boat fishing with Poppy. Poppy and Lily also have plans to see a movie together sometime over the weekend. Poppy says that he will be joining the Army to work as an engineer to help rebuild parts of...