Chapter 8 Summary

Dawn is released from the hospital, and Bunny escorts her to the train station. She was discovered the night before collapsed in a phone booth. Half a dozen empty aspirin bottles were scattered around her. Bunny gets Dawn set up on the train and gives her some money. Dawn warns him that "that girl" is trouble, but Bunny politely ignores the statement. After the train leaves, Bunny opens the envelope she gave him for St. Ives. It contains a note and her musical lighter. Bunny burns the note and drops the lighter in a vase at the theater. The actor is already blaming himself for what happened with Dawn. St. Ives is grateful, though, that he did not ask Meredith to fire Dawn. Stella has told everyone that Dawn was quite cheerful earlier in the day. She reports that Dawn talked of her...