When Dale Hawthorne returns home after his three week absence, he does not leave again. What does he do to occupy his time? What does he do when he becomes restless?

Dale Hawthorne works on his farm and cares for his family again. Within a month, he returns to reciting poetry at the Grange and reading Scriptures at the church, both to captures audiences. When restless, he smokes and paces, and sometimes takes his motorcycle for a ride.