Chapter 13 Summary

It is intermission at The Casino and Lutie and Boots are sitting at a table together. She asks him about her salary and he tells her that she is just singing for the experience. When she questions him further he tells her that Junto owns The Casino and that he does not think she is ready yet. All of her hopes are now crushed. She gets up to leave and Boots gives her some rhinestone earrings from Junto. While she has no interest in Boots, she does not understand his sudden disinterest in her.

When she enters her apartment building, she sees all the grime and dinginess of the building. Just last night she had been blind to it. She feels beaten, yet she is determined not to become resigned to live there forever.

The next morning Lutie scolds Bub for sleeping with...