Section 4: pages 68-86 Summary

On 4 March, Clovis Fossey writes that he did not want to go to the book meetings at first because he was busy with his farm. In 1942, he started courting Widow Hubert, but Ralph Murchey was more successful in his suit and told Clovis it was because women like poetry. Clovis fell in love with William Wordsworth and eventually won the hand of Widow Hubert, his Nancy.

On 10 March, Eben tells Juliet that Eli is in his keeping because his parents died during the war. Eli was evacuated to England in June, 1940 with the other Guernsey children, and he boarded with a farm family in Yorkshire before coming home after the war ended. When Will Thisbee's pig died, the Germans certified its death, and then he took it to Amelia who also received a death certificate for the pig, enabling...