Turner’s parents look the other way while he continues visiting Lizzie and her grandfather in Malaga. Lizzie occasionally shows up at Mrs. Cobb’s when Turner is there. One day, Mrs. Cobb seems as though she is about to pass away while Turner is playing. He rushes to follow her instructions of writing down her last words. However, Mrs. Cobb revives as Turner and Lizzie are arguing about the wording of her speech and seems to be back to her normal self. She sends Turner and Lizzie into the other room to get her a soda, and when they come back, they discover that she has peacefully passed away. This means that her last words were not the poetic Scripture passage she quoted, but a request for them to get her a drink.

As the townspeople gather at Mrs. Cobb’s after her death (before which Lizzie quietly leaves the house), Mr. Stonecrop instructs Turner to write down Mrs. Cobb’s last words, to be read aloud at her funeral. Later, Turner slips away and finds Lizzie, who says that her grandfather is going to die. At Mrs. Cobb’s funeral, Turner gives his father a piece of paper with her last words written on them.