Diana is scared to death because after a fortune teller tells her that “someone will come back to her life,” she believes that the ghost of Mr. Lucilo, her deceased neighbor, is haunting her house. Laura downplays her superstitions and tells her a story about it: “The Monkey's Paw” by William Wymark Jacobs.
2020 won't be able to stop Diana, so she has already started planning her 2021 by making a map of the places in the world she wants to visit that year. Laura feels like her sister is putting a lot of pressure on herself, but the whole idea of traveling the world reminds her of a Jules Verne story: “Around the World in 80 Days.”