Though she was just in the Midnight Library, Nora materializes in the English countryside on a quiet road. She notes an engagement ring and wedding band on her finger and marvels that her hands are smoother in this life. She spies a chalkboard outside a pub with her handwriting on it and realizes that the pub, The Three Horseshoes, must belong to her and Dan. It seems Dan’s dream of opening a pub has come to pass after all. Back in her root life, Dan and Nora had to return to Bedford from London when Nora’s mother’s cancer became terminal; they put their pub dream on hold to be there for Nora’s mother.

Nora sees a placard indicating that she’s in Littleworth, in the Oxfordshire countryside. She then enters the pub, where someone she’s supposed to know finishes cleaning for the night and then leaves. This is the third person Nora has had to pretend she knows since materializing out on the road (the other two were outside). There’s also a Burmese cat named Voltaire. As Nora takes in her surroundings, she hears Dan approach. The sight of Dan floods Nora with nostalgia and happiness.