Summary

In chapters 3 and 5, Isabelle is telling her story to Dorrie. In chapter 3, She tells of Nell fixing her hair for a party, though Isabelle’s true plans were to go to her friend’s party but then to ditch it and go to a nightclub in downtown Newport, Kentucky, called Rendezvous. Isabelle notes a moment when she inadvertently insults Nell, creating a divide in their relationship that was never there before yet never ends up going away. As Isabelle is walking out of the house for the party, her father wishes her a good evening and her mother is slightly suspicious that the Jones family will be bringing Isabelle to and from the party. Still, she lets Isabelle know her curfew of 11:30 and drops the subject.

Isabelle makes her way to the party, then after a short while makes her way out to...