Summary

Chapter 4 finds the protagonist dictating to his recorder again. He speaks to the recorder as if he were speaking to his wife Rachel in the present tense, like actual dialogue. He talks about how they had first met, at high school during a track meet. He says he took a Latin class just to be closer to her. Ben claims that Ashley reminds him a lot of her. Ben also describes her in terms of running, saying that she just floated through the air, but he noticed certain imperfections that he was able to help. In summary, Ben says that Rachel and him were meant for each other from the beginning.

In Chapter 5, Ben set Ashley’s broken leg and packed it with snow to reduce the swelling. He dug out a bank in the snow for her to lay flat on, and...