 Outside Julie 's cottage , Carrie describes her visit to New York with the now @-@ wealthy Enoch . Carrie 's husband and their many children enter to fetch her — the family must get ready for the high school graduation later that day . Enoch Jr . , the oldest son , remains behind to talk with Louise , as Billy and the Heavenly Friend escorting him enter , invisible to the other characters . Louise confides in Enoch Jr. that she plans to run away from home with an acting troupe . He says that he will stop her by marrying her , but that his father will think her an unsuitable match . Louise is outraged : each insults the other 's father , and Louise orders Enoch Jr. to go away . Billy , able to make himself visible at will , reveals himself to the sobbing Louise , pretending to be a friend of her father . He offers her a gift — the star he stole from heaven . She refuses it and , frustrated , he slaps her hand . He makes himself invisible , and Louise tells Julie what happened , stating that the slap miraculously felt like a kiss , not a blow — and Julie understands her perfectly . Louise retreats to the house , as Julie notices the star that Billy dropped ; she picks it up and seems to feel Billy 's presence ( " If I Loved You ( Reprise ) " ) . 
