Enter Melanie -- And Marshall Summary

April returns to her grandmother's apartment just in time to dress up for lunch with the Ross's. She piles her blonde hair on top of her head, puts on a new pair of false eyelashes she bought at a drugstore just that morning, puts on one of her mother's old fur stoles, and tells Melanie Ross when she comes to fetch her that her name is April Dawn. April has decided to adopt this last name because her mother is known in Hollywood is Dorothea Dawn.

At first, Melanie is put off by April's haughty attitude and her bragging about living in Hollywood. April tells Melanie that she loves everything having to do with ancient Egypt. After pawing through books in Melanie's room, April runs across an old geography book. She opens it and finds...