macon lay on the day bed in his grandparents sun porch, and listened to Rose singing as she got the breakfast. She had a high, shaky voice that sounded like an old lady's, though she was the younger of the four Leary children. she had never left home because there had always been someone she had to take care of.Their grandparents had got old and ill, one after the other the other, and then it was her brother,Frist Charles, the oldest, and then Porter, the next brother, had failed in their marriages and come back home. And now Macon had come as well, to lie there with his broken left leg in plaster and be looked after by Rose.