Summary

Mature Elaine wakes up feeling worthless, useless, and old. She has doubts about the black dress she brought for the opening of the retrospective and decides to look for a new one in bargain shops. While she is trying on dresses, a hand reaches under the dressing room partition and grabs her wallet out of her purse, which she has carelessly left on the floor. She steps on the hand, it drops the wallet, and Elaine hears the sound of school girl giggling. She leaves the dressing room in an attempt to apprehend the offenders, but they are gone. She curses Cordelia.

Stephen and Elaine finally begin to attend a public school. Stephen is happy to be among rowdy boys, but Elaine is unsure around the girls. Carol Campbell makes friends with her, and they start walking home together. Elaine she visits Carol’s house...