Section 12: pages 247-268 Summary

In A Plan Unfurls, Scarlett follows Mrs. Amberson's instructions exactly the next day, but Eric does not invite her inside, foreshadowing something is wrong. She tells him she will be writing at the coffee shop, so he offers to stop by on his way to rehearsal, but he does not leave his apartment until twenty minutes before rehearsal, and as he waits on his stoop, a girl joins him, seeming annoyed as she rants at Eric before storming off. The appearance of this other girl foreshadows the discovery that Eric has a girlfriend. Clueless as to what happened, Scarlett joins Eric who announces they need to figure out an answer to Scarlett's question. He tells her that he cannot be a boyfriend right now so maybe they should not go on like this, fulfilling the earlier foreshadowing that Mrs...