Summary

Jo is attending the University of Michigan, and Bethie visits her. At the university, Bethie meets Harold Jefferson, the man who carried her to the school nurse's office when she passed out because she was not eating properly. He invites her to a party. Jo, who will be joining a civil rights rally, agrees to let Bethie go to the party after Bethie promises Harold will accompany her. Many of the party goers are dressed like Bethie, who is formally dressed in a slimming blue-and-white skirt with a matching headband. However, Bethie also notices people whose fashion is influenced by the burgeoning 1960s counterculture: women with loose long hair who are wearing jeans or loose pants, women who are declining to wear makeup. Bethie also encounters drug users.

Bethie meets Devon Brady, a flirty, confident drug dealer who is an acquaintance of Harold's...