Back at home, Ulysses reveals a new and astonishing power: he climbs onto a typewriter and types a poem for Flora. A flying, typing squirrel is a true , and Flora can hardly believe her eyes. Next door, a boy named William Spiver has come to stay with his great-aunt. Sent away from home, he is lonely and full of , hiding his sadness behind a calm and a flood of fancy words. He cannot see, yet he claims to the world by sound and touch. Flora is utterly by him.