Chapter 12 Summary

Noni and Lola think Sai needs more social interaction with the right people and also instruction of being a lady. They disapprove of her friendliness with the cook, believing that those in the servant class were not only inferior but incapable of lofty emotions. Noni is sometimes jealous that Lola experienced love and marriage. Noni sees herself in Sai, though unlike Sai, her spirit was demolished at the Catholic school Noni attended and it was too late for Noni by the time she "found herself." Sai tells Noni she wants to travel. Sai and Noni tried picking up the physics book again, then put it down. Noni told Sai that if she gets a chance in life, that she has to take it. They try physics again, but Noni admits defeat and that night sends Sai home with a note for the judge...