Summary

Glass of Water – Delphine, looking at her Timex watch, realizes they are up an hour and five minutes past their bedtime. It is 9:35. Delphine bathes her younger sisters and gets them to bed. She reads to them from “Peter Pan”, and then reads to herself from “Island of the Blue Dolphins” before falling asleep. She is awakened by Fern going to the kitchen, but is too late to stop her from running into Cecile. Cecile will not let Fern get a drink of water. Delphine adopts the voice she uses for white people, pressing for a glass of water on Fern’s behalf. Cecile relents, saying she didn’t ask for them to be there. She goes into the kitchen, the door opening just enough for Delphine to see something like white wings hanging down from the ceiling. Cecile gives Fern a glass...