Chapter 19 Summary

Life on the farm assumes a sense of normalcy in May as the sun shines, leaves burst to full bloom, and mating season begins. Judith is wallowing in her misery. She has veiled all two hundred photos of Seth with black cloth and finds no meaning left in her life. Aunt Ada Doom keeps to her room, full of hate and anger and wondering if more Starkadders will be leaving the farm. She blames everything on Flora, and the wrong doing against her father, Robert Poste, "come back to roost". Flora is happy as she observes Reuben making vast improvements to the farm. She joins him on a trip to Godmere to pick out fertilizers and grinders. Over lunch, she asks where he got the money for the supplies. Reuben explains that he has been falsifying the farm books for nearly five years...