On aging and saying goodbye - from farewell to Teresa, her nursemaid, to her and her husband's family home at 851 Bryant in Winnetka upon their move to Lake Forest Place. Everything in between: summers in Madison, CT, classmates/soldiers leaving for World War II, boyfriends along the way, graduations from school, the adult death of their mildly retarded first child, exciting dinners with musicians (Eugene Ormandy) through Ravinia, parents, a grandmother, sailboat racing (MA to Bermuda) and adventures, Dr. Spock and permissiveness, and the working life.