- Business is worse the week after Frank leaves.
- The Bobers discuss selling or auctioning the store.
- Morris wants to sell so that they can sell the house as well.
- Ida says no one will buy.
- Helen suggests Morris look for a job, but with his health and age, that prospect doesn't look good.
- None of them knows what to do.
- Later, Ida suggests Helen find a husband and recommends Louis Karp.
- Ida visits Karp and asks the liquor store owner if the refuge he had mentioned earlier might still be looking to buy.
- Karp says maybe, but doesn't think he can recommend the Bober store.
- Ida tells him to sell the price.
- She also tells Julius to tell Louis not to be so bashful around Helen.
- When Karp talks to his son, the boy isn't interested in Helen. She's not his type.