Summary

Chapter 10 begins with Francis delivering Noemí’s breakfast tray. He offered to show Noemí his spore prints, and she agreed to meet him in the library in an hour. Noemí considered that this trip to the library to meet Francis was like a social outing, and put on a polka-dot dress. She wondered what her friends in the city were doing and if Hugo had found a new girl. When Francis arrived, she asked him about a photograph in the hallway of a woman about her own age, which he told her was of his cousin Ruth. Noemí told him that she had heard that Ruth killed herself and others. Francis pointed out the photographs of the people who Ruth killed: Her cousin, Michael; her mother, Alice; and Dorothy and Leland, Ruth’s aunt and uncle and Francis’s grandparents.

Noemí asked Francis...