Summary

In this section of Chapter 8, Lee was at the airport terminal on her way home for Christmas break when Horton Kinnelly asked her for the first time by other Ault students to join them in the restaurant where they usually waited for their planes. She sat with the group for fifteen minutes before she decided it was polite to leave. After she left she came to the decision that Horton didn’t have a specific reason for calling her to join them, it had just happened.

On the way home from the airport Lee wondered if her mother could sense a change in her. She planned to treat her family differently that vacation because she believed she had more patience and felt more generous. Before she’d even gotten home, however, Lee was upset because she sensed in the way...