Beloved Chapter 27
Paul D sees Denver in town. She tells him that Beloved is gone and that Sethe isn't doing very well. No one is sure what happened to Beloved. Some think she exploded or vanished like the ghost they believed her to be, but a little boy claimed to see a naked, pregnant woman running through the woods behind 124. Paul D goes to visit Sethe and finds her weak and listless in Baby Suggs' bed. She cries because "her best thing" Chapter 27, pg. 272 left her. Moved by his feelings for her, Paul D promises to stay with her and then tells her, "'You your best thing, Sethe. You are." Chapter 27, pg. 273