Many years later, Mae and Angus Tuck return to Treegap and find that it has changed a great deal – the wooded area is gone and so is their spring; the town has become a typical suburban metropolis. While there, they visit a cemetery where they find a grave labelled "Winifred Foster Jackson- Dear Wife, Dear Mother", indicating that Winnie went on to marry and have children, and had died two years before. Though Angus Tuck is saddened by this, he also secretly praises Winnie for choosing not to drink the water. They come across a toad near her grave and "save" it from a truck, unaware that it is the same one that she had poured water on years before.