Tuesday, Chapters 1 through 7 Summary

John wakes on Tuesday and is tempted to drop his part in the situation and go to work, but doesn't. He goes to Smith College in search of girls who knew Karen. John walks in claiming to be Karen's uncle and asks to see her. The receptionist, apparently unaware, directs him to Ginnie who is Karen's roommate and does know of the girl's death. She mistakes John for a lawyer and agrees to answer questions in the room she shared with Karen. Ginnie says she didn't know Karen well, that they'd been assigned as roommates. She says Karen was constantly trying to shock her with details of her sexual exploits, that she seldom went to class, and that she claimed to have had abortions before entering college. Ginnie says she put it down to a student wanting to create...