Ruth is back home from the hospital the following weekend. After all the tests, the anticipated route is by-pass surgery. Ruth seems all consumed in her hopeless perspective. All her life she’d struggled to make things right. But now she appears to have no fight left and claims the world has little right left.

Josiah had never given Lark much notice at all.  But right now, Lark becomes the center of attention.
                 
Suddenly, Lark gets some unwanted attention.  Samuel's look turns into one of concern, “Leah, Lark is doing something wrong!”
                 
Leah laughs.  Lark is stooping and looking all around in a quite uncomfortable sort of way. Leah laughs again, “Lark is taking a dump.”
                 
Leah is consumed in her own thoughts over the ordeal, “Lark looks like Josiah did when Josiah used color crayons on the wall.”                                         

Samuel hesitates, then asks, “What’s a dump?”
                 
Leah politely explains, “Lark is going to the bathroom.  We shut the door, but Lark doesn’t have a door, so it must be a little embarrassing. Maybe Lark feels a little guilty too.”

   Leah continues to offer a little more than Samuel had asked for, “It’s a natural way to look when you’re humbling yourself."  Leah laughs, "It’s kind of like the way you look, Samuel, when you're loading your pants.”