Following her father's funeral, Ann reflects on his final years marked by political decline, an unhappy marriage, and drinking only to discover he had experienced one secret period of joy and romance.
After her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife, eased only by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that he had in fact one brief and unsuspected period of happiness and love.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
