Flora and Ulysses Chapter 44 Summary

Her Treacherous Heart

  • With his heavy glasses on and sucker in his mouth, William looks exactly like a villain, Flora thinks. 
  • He asks if it's Flora, and she retorts that she's surprised he couldn't smell her since he claims to have an excellent sense of smell and all. 
  • Well, joke's on you, Flora, because it turns out William can smell pretty well—at least well enough to know he smells grape jelly and squirrel. 
  • Her mom stops typing, turns around, and stares at Flora with an open mouth. 
  • Flora asks her mom point blank what she told her dad to do with the squirrel, but before Phyllis can even answer, George enters the room and introduces himself to William. 
  • Flora's mom is shocked by how George looks. What has he done to himself? 
  • When he explains he was attacked by a cat and saved by a squirrel, Phyllis gets annoyed and asks him if he's lost his mind. 
  • He assures her he hasn't, at which point Flora jumps in to express some outrage about the whole killing-the-squirrel operation.