As Finny goes through his things, Gene notices that his hands are shaking. Phineas then confesses to Gene of his tireless efforts during the past year to get recruited with a broken leg. But nobody wanted him, which is why he maintained the illusion that there wasn't any war. Sure, that's just what would happen. Phineas, crying, says he believes him.
Gene leaves and goes through the motions of a typical schoolday at Devon.
Stanpole struggles to tell Gene that during the setting of the bone, some marrow must have gotten into Finny's bloodstream and stopped his heart. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family's strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston. All Rights Reserved. To print this page, please use Internet Explorer.