- Frank has taken it upon himself to man the Bober store. He keeps it afloat with the money he earns at his night job.
- People stop in to pay their respects, one to pay a debt he owed Morris.
- Ida lives on rent from Frank and Nick, and from Helen's salary.
- She gets a job herself, sewing.
- Frank tries to tell Helen that he's a changed man, but she says he reminds her of everything she wants to forget.
- He asks her if she understood the books she had him read.