Summary

Chapter Ten opens with Rose looking over the notes that she has written while in the hospital. Through narration, she conveys that she is beginning to see what Odalie was doing to her and thinks back to how everything escalated gradually over time.

She remembers the days after moving in with Odalie, how Odalie would put her in a trance, buffing her nails and brushing her hair. They would turn the radiators up and walked around in their slips. Two or three times a week, they would go to speakeasies or parties. Rose suspected that Gib got the wrong idea about her relationship with Odalie in much the same way that Dotty and Helen did about Adele. Rose did not think Gib was the right person for Odalie.

Rose remembered talking to Gib about Odalie’s living arrangements. Odalie told Rose that her...