Summary

Chapter 10

America eats a delicious steak for dinner, but she feels uncomfortable with the girls, who are all also ill at ease. Marlee says that the girls were strange to America because she was so likeable. She says that girls have ways of getting under each other’s skin, and they reassure each other. America goes back to her room and dismisses her maids. She just wants to be alone. She looks out the window and wants fresh air. Her balcony is behind bars, so she tries to go down to the garden. The guards at the doors try to turn her back, but she is desperate to get outside. She can’t breathe. Prince Maxon arrives to tell the guards to let her outside. When he tries to comfort her, his royal manner unnerves her and angers her, so she yells at...