Chapters 39 through 42 Summary

In Chapter 39, Lark's parents have another ferocious argument, each threatening to kill the other. Lark goes to her First Confession and learns that she did not kill baby Marjorie. She practically floats from the room, she is so happy.

Lark takes her First Communion in Chapter 40 and she is overjoyed. She feels she enters into a part of her parents' world.

At the Majestic Movie Theater in Chapter 41, Lark's Mama wins the two hundred and fifty dollar grand prize at the 1940 Bank Nite. She opens a typing service business and calculates by the time Lark is in the fourth grade, The Cape Ann will be in the process of being built.

In Chapter 42, Lark, for the first time in awhile, steps back into the banjo clock for a fantasy escape from the news that Aunt Betty and Uncle Stan may get...