On Saturday morning, Beth tries to fill the time with familiar domestic work, moving around the kitchen and attempting to remember what ordinary Saturdays used to feel like before everything fell apart. Routine tasks only intensify her grief and guilt. Beth notices that Nina has stayed away from the farm, and Beth thinks bitterly about how she has betrayed not just Frank but the whole family. Remembering a time when she felt lucky in her marriage, motherhood, and life on the farm makes her present shame sharper.

Although Beth knows she has deeply wronged Frank, Jimmy is the person she worries about most. Beth reflects on how badly Jimmy handles sudden change and how dependent he still is on Frank despite being married and about to become a father. Remembering how lost Jimmy looked the previous night, and how Frank held him like a child, Beth sees again how Jimmy was damaged by his mother’s death. She contrasts Frank’s patient understanding with David’s anger, recognizing that Frank has long carried Jimmy’s pain without judgment.

At the same time, Beth admits to herself that what has happened between her and Gabriel feels, to her, unavoidable. Beth believes that she and Gabriel were always going to find their way back to one another because too much longing, desire, and unfinished feeling remained unresolved. In Beth’s mind, Bobby’s death shattered the protected life she had built, and Gabriel’s reappearance lit the spark that had never fully gone out. As Beth abandons her tea and washing, she wonders whether this scandal means the end of her life with Frank and Jimmy on the farm.

Restless, Beth walks through the farmhouse and notices the dusty wedding photograph she and Frank keep on the windowsill. She takes it into the kitchen and cleans it, then studies the image while remembering their small, simple wedding, attended only by close family. Beth recalls how happy they were, how warmly her parents welcomed Frank, and how fully they trusted him. Looking at the photograph now, Beth is struck by how young they both were, and the memory underscores how much has been lost.