A girl leaves her home, but her parents did not really drive her away. They told her that she was always welcome and that a man named John was a good man. The girl's sibling Seppie says that John is dependable and honest. The girl tries to tell them about something John did once that makes it impossible to love him, but she does not. The mother tells her about how she and the father had been together for thirty years, and there was such a thing as God's Will. The father says that times are hard and it might be best for the girl to go back to Clarendon where John was making a good living selling aluminum ware. The kitchen is cold and quiet, and the father goes out to plug the cracks in the henhouse and returned with an egg. Her mother handles the egg for too long, and the girl feels sorry for her parents, remembering that they were not sending her away. The girl tries to tell her father that she needs a friend in the house, but he does not listen. Her mother says John is a nice, reliable man, and Seppie says that they wants to live in the city too. The parents say that the girl is always welcome but one more mouth to feed is too difficult. The parents say that maybe John will come for her tomorrow, and she wants to scream that John would not find her anymore. She fingers her plain gold ring. When it is dark out, she goes to a room upstairs where her parents told her to leave her bag when she came home. Seppie's clothes are in the closet, and Seppie had placed the picture of John on the dresser. The girl hides the picture under the mattress, and she packs her bag. When everyone is asleep, she goes outside to the path, which is not far from the bus line. She decides that she will sell the ring and get a job at a hotel, and nobody will ever know where she had gone. The house is silent but she thinks she feels eyes at a window as she walks away, and she thinks she feels a light in the room where Seppie sleeps. She gets on a bus to Southport, and thinks that there must be some way to do it.