Summary

Tallulah returns from Raleigh and asks Cecelia about their day at Tybee Island. Cecelia does her best to act normal, glad when the subject changes. They go to the supermarket and run into Thelma Rae who tells Tallulah that she spoke with Minnie Hayes recently. Two police detectives had walked the neighborhood asking questions and the action seemed to be centered on her neighbors Marilee and Augustus Slade and their son Lucas. Cecelia gulps and later at home waits for an opportunity to talk to Oletta.

That afternoon, she tells Oletta what Thelma Rae had said, and Oletta is ready to tell Tallulah everything right then, but again Cecelia stops her. The next afternoon, a letter comes for Cecelia from Mrs. Odell. Though short and sweet, she tells CeeCee that she loves the picture she’d sent and Cecelia asks if she can...