Summary

In Chapter 53, Daunis sits on a stone surrounded by woods. The pansies sing to her. She turns around and sees Lily on the rock next to her. Lily places a garland of pansies around Daunis’s neck and kisses her on each cheek.

In Chapter 54, Daunis is drawn from her joy back to the pain and cold of the real world by her mother’s voice.

In Chapter 55, three days after Daunis nearly died, she regains consciousness. Her mother is crying and tells her that GrandMary died that morning, in her sleep. Grace thinks she waited until neither one of them was there.

In the next section, Daunis convinces her doctor she is aware of her surroundings and how she came to be in the hospital. After the doctor leaves, Daunis first tells her mother that David had been helping the FBI...