- Business continues to lag.
- The Polish woman still comes for her roll, but Nick has returned to buying groceries at the other store.
- Frank thinks maybe he'll turn the store into a restaurant.
- To pass the time he reads the Bible.
- He has a thought: St. Francis turns the wooden rose he made for Helen into a real rose. The saint gives it to her and she accepts it.
- In April Frank has himself circumcised at the hospital.
- After Passover he becomes a Jew.