Chapter X Summary

Summer comes again, and Quick gets transferred at work to traffic detail, which he likes. Dolly and his friends from the bar coo over Wax Harry, and Lon and his bride, Pansy, have a baby girl at the hospital. Rose helps at the shop and realizes she enjoys it, despite her contentious relationship with Oriel. She begins to understand that she is an organizer and leader, like Oriel. Sam begins to slow down at work, and he realizes that he soon will have owned Cloudstreet for twenty years, which means he could sell it, by the conditions of the inheritance. The trial of the Nedlands Monster is forced off the front page by the assassination of John Kennedy, but in 1974, the Monster is hung, and Perth exults. Oriel and Lester are mortified, and when Quick doesn't understand this, Lester explains that...