- With Taast and Pederson (the Norwegians) offering specials every week, business at the Bober store is terrible.
- Frank asks Ida what she'll tell Morris about their circumstances.
- Ida says he doesn't ask, so she doesn't tell him.
- Morris has been sleeping or reading or sometimes listening to the radio.
- Ida asks Frank why he stays.
- Frank wants to say for love, but he doesn't have the nerve.
- They cut costs by removing the phone and using only one radiator.