Rainy Sunday Summary

It is a rainy Sunday afternoon at the Quimby house and Ramona is sullen. Mr. Quimby is studying and in a short mood. Mrs. Quimby asks Ramona several times to clean her room, but Ramona daydreams at the window until her mother gets angry. Mr. Quimby repeats her insistence that Ramona start cleaning her room right away. Sulking, Ramona goes to her room. As she passes Beezus' room, she overhears her arguing with her mother who has told her she cannot go to a friend's house.

Mrs. Quimby is in a bad mood. She and Mr. Quimby snip at one another over the cold air that gets in when she lets out the cat. She scolds Ramona again for not playing with Willa Jean as nicely as she could after school. Ramona sighs deeply. Willa Jean has finally figured out that...