As the days pass, Flora's mother makes no secret of her for the squirrel, looking at him as though he were beneath her. Her toward both Ulysses and Flora grows sharper by the hour, and in secret she begins to plot. Flora dreads the she is sure the grown-ups will heap on her superhero. Yet whenever Ulysses feels love, he turns it into , tapping out tender poems on the typewriter. Watching him work, even a cynic could not help but . For Flora, the little squirrel is the one thing keeping her from complete .