Summary

Chapter 37, “The Surface,” reveals the boy breaking through the water surface gasping for air. The other boys call after him and the boy crawls to his feet. Margaret thinks about how she is “perfectly fine, and he is almost dead” (118). Margaret knows that the boy will not tell the truth about what happened. Margaret swims toward her friends.

Chapter 38, “The Calm,” returns Margaret to her friends where they walk along the lakeshore in silence. The other girls are worried and Margaret thinks “we have a secret” (121) and the summer “turned darker” (121).

Part II is titled Subimago. In Chapter 39, “The Telling,” Nisreen asks Margaret for the truth. Margret tells her friends that the boy is why Margaret had to go away. Nisreen asks if the boy is who Rose found.

Chapter 40, “The Confrontation,” opens with how stories spread and whether they are true or...