Chapters 5-6 Summary

The next day Cassel thinks about Lila. They were nine when they met. Her parents' marriage was falling apart, so she went to live with her mother in the Pine Barrens, and later met Cassel and his family. She was spoiled and a bit of a tomboy. They played rough and she was a bit of a bully, but he worshiped her. Then her parents divorced and she was dragged around Europe for some time, and then spent a few summers in New York with her father. Cassel did not see her again until they were thirteen, when he found her in the house talking to Barron. Barron told Cassel to go away as they were discussing private worker things. Barron and Lila then went somewhere together, and she came back with disheveled hair and her lipstick gone. Cassel was jealous...