Susan reflects that they may not have meat for Christmas dinner due to rationing. Ada remembers that the three pilots that she, Susan, and Jamie invited to their Christmas dinner the previous year are now all dead. She reflects on the number of people she knows who have died.

Ada’s friend Maggie (Margaret Thorton) arrives home from boarding school for Christmas break. She comes to see Ada at their cottage, and Ada is overjoyed to see her. After exchanging news for a while, Ada walks Maggie home to Thorton house, where Maggie lives with her parents Lord and Lady Thorton. On the way home, Ada is terrified to suddenly hear Jamie scream in pain.

Ada finds Jamie lying on the ground unconscious, having fallen out of the tree he was climbing. His arm, bent at an unnatural angle, is clearly broken. Ada, panic-stricken and crying, reflects that without Jamie, she would die. Susan runs to get help, but in the meantime, Lady Thorton arrives and covers Jamie in a coat. The village physician, Dr. Graham, arrives in his car and takes Jamie to his office. Jamie’s arm is put into a cast, and he is returned to the cottage.