Momma floats through her dreams, wondering who will die and what is going to be born. She sees Celia sitting at Alice’s house and knows they are up to something. Alice looks like she is reading from a slim sheet of paper. Celia is quiet. Why in the world would Alice still be reading to Celia? Surely Celia can read. What in the world is one grown woman doing reading to the other? What has that to do with Gramma Alice telling her that for something to be born something has to die? NED IS BACK. JIM is leaning against the same windowsill Ned left him leaning against; the place looks cleaner. Things are arranged in neat piles where Stella intends to put them when the cupboards are built. With clean clothes folded neatly, Ned feels a little safer and more comfortable. She has made a lot of decisions over the past three days. It surprises both men. She still seems strange, not quite all there, as if she is walking through a dream, but they have started to build whatever it is she asks them to.
