Spring arrives and Jim and the Harling children are elated. In a foretelling quote Jim says, "Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer everyday." We are reminded that the children of this novel are growing up. A dancing pavilion has been set up by three Italians, the Vannis, who teach dancing. The entire town is drawn to this social tent; mothers bring their daughters, boys sell pop and lemonade there, and the girls have somewhere to wear their new dresses. The Saturday night dances are open to.....
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