Despite the fact that Anna never discusses the time she spent as part of a blindfolded trapeze act in her youth, the grace she possessed then remains part of her even in her old age. Anna has gone blind, and yet, her daughter (the narrator) says she never loses her balance, knocks anything over, or even bumps into anything as she moves around in total darkness. She has not lost her poise, even though she is quite advanced in years and has lost her sense of sight. Anna appears to be getting around just fine, but her daughter has moved in partially because she feels she owes her. Even by the time the house fire occurred, Anna was distanced from her life as a trapeze artist. Yet even as a mother, with years between her and her training, she retains the skills she developed in her youth in order to save her daughter. Her balance and skill have not left her. Though the audience does not directly encounter Anna—she is introduced through the narrator’s perception of her—one has the sense that her youthful grace has aged well.