Book 4: Chapter 28, One for the Road Summary

Oly visits Miranda for the last time. She doesn't want to see the sketches, yet Miranda tells her she appreciates her body for its unique beauty. She mentions the surgery that she is going to have with Miss Lick and says that she will be in a nursing home for awhile afterwards, and then she will probably move away. Oly does not even get upset.

Instead, the next morning, she gets up and goes to the club an hour before the lifeguard has to leave. She pours ammonia into the steam room tubes. She goes to the bar and gets a drink to calm herself and returns to the pool. They swim together and afterwards, Oly follows Miss Lick as she enters the steam bath. She deadbolts the door behind Miss Lick. Miss...