Jones’s daughter recently gave birth to his only grandchild. Jones and his wife are disheartened by the news because they never knew their daughter was even pregnant, finding themselves restless and anxious to get to her as quickly as possible. When they finally arrive at the cottage their daughter and son-in-law are renting 1000 miles away, Jones and his daughter spend the afternoon outside touring the forests as she points out the resiliency of a family of tropical plants, bromeliads, flowering around them. Meanwhile, Jones’s infirm wife tends to the baby, both falling asleep.  Later in the evening, as Jones’s daughter manages preparing dinner and nursing the baby, she is overcome by the heat in the dark and hot cottage and asks her father to finish dinner preparation. Soon after, Jones’s son-in-law arrives at the cottage with gin to make a refreshing drink with the limes from a nearby tree simultaneously in “bloom and bud and blossom,” a spectacle that evokes very strong feelings in Jones’s wife.  Much later, and having returned home, Jones and his wife receive a letter from their daughter, who writes that she is sick and needs time to recover. Jones and his wife take their grandchild in, but no sooner does Jones’s wife fall sick and is admitted into the hospital for observation and blood panels, the prognosis of which is "bad but not the worst. One day, after anxiously searching for a toy in the hospitals gift shop for her grandchild, Jones’s wife finds a plush blue elephant toy that she gifts the baby during hospital visitation. The baby is instantly gratified by the toy.