Summary

In Chapter 6, Ingrid writes her third letter to Gil and relates that she took her time reading the book Gil had lent her. Although she dislikes the novel, Ingrid makes a conscious effort to leave Gil’s classes slowly, hoping he will ask her about it once the other students have gone. When Gil fails to mention the book for several classes, Ingrid visits his office to return and discuss it. She wears her most flattering yellow dress for the occasion. Ingrid thanks Gil for his helpful margin notes only to learn that they were not his. Gil predicts that a 15-year-old male virgin produced the majority of said book’s marginalia and apologizes that Ingrid read such a dreadful novel in its entirety. Gil offers to take Ingrid out for a drink as compensation for subjecting her to his awful book, but Ingrid...