Chapter Seventeen - Eighteen Summary

Will forgets all about his promise to meet Lightfoot the next day. His day is filled with people asking about his experience with the train and about Grandpa Blakeslee and Miss Love's marriage.

Grandpa Blakeslee shows up two days later and tells Mary Willis that she and Loma need to go to the house and go through their mother's things. Grandpa Blakeslee tells her to send Will as soon as he gets done. When Will gets to Grandpa Blakeslee's house, he is greeted with lively piano music. Love puts Will to work helping her get the house clean. Will is a little offended that Miss Love wants to change so much about the house.

When Grandpa Blakeslee arrives home to find no supper cooked. Will is expecting a big scene when Love tells him that she lost...