Book 2, Part 2 Summary

Doc Swain has an internal debate as he considers whether to perform an abortion on Selena. Finally, he goes upstairs and tells Selena he's going to take care of her.

Constance and Makis leave town on a dinner date as Doc is performing the abortion on Selena.with him. Constance thinks about her developing relationship with Makis and how he virtually raped her on one of their first dates.

Back in the present, when they return to Peyton Place after their date, Constance is told by a neighbor that the hospital's been trying to reach her. Constance rushes to the hospital worried for Allison, but learns that Doc Swain had to perform an emergency "appendectomy" on Selena.

Book 2, Part 2 Analysis

In its examination of Doc Swain's tortured contemplation of Selena's situation, and of the situation she has put him in, the...