Summary

In Chapter Ten, the girls walk through the passage. They walk to the genizah, a storage place for old holy books before they get buried in the cemetery. They find stairs and go up to the shul. They look for a key to the mikvah in the rabbi’s table, so they do not have to wake Ema up to let them back inside. However, the shammas—the caretaker of the shul—catches them. He recognizes them and gives them the key to the mikvah, but he warns them not to wander around at night. Aviva starts to feel a tickling of old memories, but she pushes them away. She sits down on the stairs outside the shul and feels paralyzed, then imagines figures on the lawn. When she comes back to herself, she and Kayla walk back into the mikvah, and Aviva...