Section 10: Pages 223 Through 246 Summary

Once the Plate family clears out of the Fetter house, Dot pulls out two glasses and pours them each a drink. Dot sits there thinking out loud how she had always expected Guy to come home, that there were days when her palms would itch and she would speed home from the grocery store expecting to see him there, that the expectation that he would come to her was what had cost her her son. During the next few days, Sabine spends her time cleaning the house, shoveling the walkway and keeping herself busy until someone comes home. Finally, Kitty takes her to Wal-Mart. Sabine has never been to a Wal-Mart. They encounter Haas, and Sabine wonders how he is to Bertie, but Kitty calms her by commenting that he is picking Bertie up a present that he was...