Summary

In chapter eleven, Gemma tells the part of the story in which it takes "a hundred years" for the prince to wake the princess. Becca asks why it took a hundred years. Gemma says that it doesn't matter whether it was a hundred years or a thousand, that "dead is dead."

In chapter twelve, Stan arrives exactly at seven that evening. He tells her that they will travel the following day to Oswego to look for more leads. He says that he has a friend there that will put them up overnight, making the return trip the following day. She agrees and he picks her up the following morning. He has a picnic basket and blanket along, and they stop to eat on the trip. They talk on the way and Becca says that Gemma's version of Sleeping Beauty doesn't end happily like the traditional...