- The next section describes a year passing. Lone has gotten well enough to help a little around the barn and house.
- Mrs. Prodd makes Lone a birthday cake. His strange eyes look at them. Mr. Prodd tells him to blow out the candles and calls him "son."
- Lone blows out the candles, and the two Prodds laugh and touch Lone caringly. Yay! About time!
- The laughing and touching make Lone feel something similar to the call, but to a far less degree. He weeps loudly. Aw.
- The husband asks his wife if they've done something wrong. She says they haven't.