In a drizzle, Alice and Charlie share an awkward goodbye at the dock, then Alice returns to the cottage ready to apologize to Nan. Nan is making dinner and, while insisting on her independence, invites Alice to change and join her. Over pasta, Alice starts to apologize, but Nan takes responsibility for orchestrating the earlier intervention with Heather and their father, acknowledging it was wrong and that Alice’s choices should be respected.

Alice then tells Nan she will not participate in the gallery show. She explains that although the photo is strong, she does not love it, fears disappointing Elyse, and feels disconnected from her work. She says she needs to recalibrate and find her voice again. Nan responds with pride, saying that knowing one’s own mind is key to a good life, adding that forgiveness and friends worth forgiving are also essential.

Nan apologizes for embarrassing Alice in front of Charlie and notes Charlie scolded her and ended the call with Heather and their father, calling him “a good match” for Alice. Alice insists she and Charlie are friends, though Nan alludes to their raft kiss; Alice maintains that modern friendships can be complicated, and Nan drops the point.

Later, as they sit together—Nan reading and Alice doing a puzzle—Nan opens up about grief. She says she has not spoken to John Kalinski in more than a decade, then reflects on losing Alice’s grandfather and their friend Joyce, and how being at the lake stirs those memories. She recounts how, after Joyce’s death, she and John remained close; years later they spent two weeks at the lake together, sharing meals and sunsets.

Nan reveals that during that visit, she and John shared a single kiss. She did not initiate it but did not stop it, and afterward she felt deep guilt about kissing Joyce’s husband in Joyce’s home. Overcome, she lashed out at John, demanded he drive her back to Toronto the next morning, refused to speak on the drive, and never saw him again.

Alice responds with compassion, noting that both had been widowed for years and seeking comfort was understandable. She urges Nan to call John, invoking the value of forgiveness. Nan demurs that too much time has passed, but when Alice suggests what Charlie would say—that at eighty she is lucky to be alive and to still have an old friend to contact—Nan smiles and admits Charlie had already said nearly the same thing.