Summary

The story returned to Charley’s point of view through a third person limited narrator in Chapter 3. Charley dropped in on a man named Prosper Denton although Miss Honey cautioned her to call first. Before retiring, Denton ran the biggest farms for the area’s white crop owners. When she finally got him to the door, Charley introduced herself and apologized for not calling to make an appointment. He invited her inside and talked with her about her farm. Their discussion revealed more about Charley’s father. Her father had owned a lot of rental property in the Los Angeles area – including an apartment complex, condo, and duplex. When he died, she expected to inherit some of that rental property. Instead, she learned from her father’s attorney that he had sold all the rental units to buy the sugarcane farm in Louisiana...