Chapters 48-49:
When will goes to the house to help, he overhears Grandpa and Miss love talking intimately. They are clearly a loving couple now. He hears Grandpa tell Miss Love that he has been thinking about Will's question: What did Jesus me by "Ask and thou shalt receive"? Grandpa thinks it mean:
"When Jesus said, ast and you'll git it, He was givin' a gar'ntee a-spiritual healin, not body healin'. HE was sayin' that if'n you get beat down--scairt to death you caint do what you got to, or scairt you gonna die, or scairt folks won't like you--why all you got to do is put yore hand in God's and He'll lift you up . . . Jesus meant us to ast God to hep us stand the pain, not beg Him to take the pain away. We can ast for comfort and hope and patience and courage, and to be gracious when thangs ain't goin' our way, and we'll git what we ast for. There ani't no gar'ntee that we ain't go'n have no troubles and ain't gone die. But shore as frogs croak and cows bellow, God'll forgive us if'n we ast him to."
Will put it all in his journal.
At first, Grandpas physical injuries were too not severe, but his pride was hurt because he got tricked. But then, in Chapter 49, he develops pneumonia and gets delirious with fever, calls Miss Love by Mattie Lou's name, and she is heartbroken. She tells Will that she is going to have a baby but has not told Grandpa because she was saving the news for Grandpa's birthday and is afraid he will die before he can learn about it. But then his fever breaks, and he recognizes everyone, and Will overhears Miss Love tell him that she is pregnant. The next morning, Miss Love screams because Grandpa is dead.
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