[3] In bed, Constantia suggests giving her late father's top hat to the porter, but her sister Josephine disagrees.
The last time the sisters saw their father, Nurse Andrews was stationed by the bedside; the Colonel opened only one eye, glaring at his daughters before dying.
Nurse Andrews, whom they invited to stay for a week after the Colonel died, is annoying them by overeating.
Mr. Farolles, a clergyman who offers to arrange the funeral, visits and suggests they take Holy Communion, to feel better, but the sisters demur.
This short story is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in narrative.