Part 5, Chapter 1 Summary

It is now a year after Everand's funeral. Henry and Bridget are still active, but are getting older, and Lucy is the one taking care of them. She is the one who drives them places, and she is the one who listens to them talk about their youth, a time before Lucy. In March, Lucy fulfills her promise and visits her mother's grave in Switzerland. She then continues to Montemarmoreo. In the winter of that same year, after she returns from her trip, she reads all of Ralph's letters again. She still feels the same feelings, but she realizes that she is no longer the same person as the person in the letter, and neither is Ralph, just as her parents had also become different people than those of her childhood memory. She wraps up the letters in an unfinished embroidery...