Chapter 3. Summary

When she gets home after visiting Helen, Julie notices a strange car in her driveway. She enters the house and her mother says that Ray is there visiting. He has let his hair grow and now has a beard. Julie's mother leaves them alone to get reacquainted, and they talk about why Ray had returned.

They talk about the events of last summer. Julie insists that if Ray, rather than Barry had been driving, things would have turned out differently. Ray is not so sure. He sees the events as an accident and even though he called an ambulance, he didn't insist that they return to the site and wait for the police to arrive. He admits to being bothered by the events and tells Julie that she has been too. Julie admits that she sent yellow roses to the family in her...