- Her errands complete, the woman takes a shortcut through the woods to get home.
- Once, her son had his girlfriend sleep over while dearest daddy was out of town. This terrible twosome "ordered the old woman about like a servant" (3.2).
- Mrs. Grimes is getting tired, so she sits and rests on a tree, quickly falling asleep. Uh oh.
- As the woman sleeps, the dogs circle her: the narrator calls it "a kind of death ceremony" (3.13). Wait—how does the narrator know about any of this anyway?
- The woman dies "softly and quietly" under the tree (3.16). The dogs investigate the body for a moment, then tear open her sack and eat the food.