Part 2: Chapter 2 Summary

Chapter 2 begins another flashback. Charity is pregnant again, and she has been overseeing Sally's therapy and care as well as all the details of taking care of Lang and their household. Lang and David have a joint first birthday party. The Langs loan the Morgans enough money to pay for Sally's medical bills and get them established in Massachusetts. Larry is now an editor at Phoenix Books, and his salary is almost twice what it had been in Wisconsin. They are settled in an apartment in Cambridge and have a nurse who comes over to help Sally with her therapy. They don't see Charity and Sid for two years. Living is all they can manage.

By 1941, Sally can get around on canes pretty well, Lang is three years old, and they decide to go to Battell Pond for three weeks that...