THE ROPE

Summary

PART 1

Dana has come home again. She has had her wrists bandaged, and Kevin is sitting by the bed. She admits that she cut her own wrists, hoping the act would get her home. Kevin only says that there has to be a better way. Kevin had called a doctor to care for her damaged wrists, and he said that she really hadn't done much.......

PART 2

Dana and Kevin have fifteen full days together this time before she's called back again. Ironically, she's called back to slavery on the fourth of July. Before that happens, however, she and Kevin grow slowly back into the twentieth century. A friend comes over and wonders what has happened to Kevin. Dana explains that he has been very sick, and the friend leaves, thinking Kevin has cancer. Kevin tries driving again, which leaves him shaking from the experience, and finally, they come to the discussion they have been putting off: what........

PART 3

Kevin's friends come over on the Fourth of July to ask the couple to go to the Rose Bowl for the fireworks. Dana doesn't want to go, and it's good that she decides not to, because just as the friends leave, she begins to feel dizzy. She stumbles for her tote and reaches it just as she disappears. She awakens lying on the ground. Rufus stumbles over her and demands to know what she is doing there. He looks haggard and weary, but not really older than the last time she saw him. She finally tells him that she never knows........

PART 4

There is an outdoor funeral for Alice. Some of the slaves at the funeral whisper that she will go to hell, because she has committed suicide. Then, there is only silence. Dana goes to the library where she can write and be alone. Rufus eventually goes to Easton Point to catch the steamboat for Baltimore. She wants to go with him, even through she makes Rufus agree to allow Carrie to raise his children rather than her. He refuses to allow her to go and tells Evan Fowler to keep an eye on her while he's gone. He fears that she'll try to run away or cut her wrists. So Fowler is in and out of the house more often while Rufus is gone. Finally, Rufus returns with the children in his arms. Dana is surprised to hear Joe call Rufus daddy. She ........

EPILOGUE

Summary

Dana and Kevin fly to Baltimore as soon as her arm is healed. Unfortunately, Rufus' house is gone, now covered with a broad cornfield. The only clue they find as to the fates of those they had met in the past is an old newspaper article. The article states that a Mr. Rufus Weylin had died in his house which had caught fire and.........

 

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