Chapter 12 Summary

This chapter begins several months later. Queenie reveals in narration that everything went as planned with the birth of Velma's baby, safely and legally adopted by her and Grover and named Grover junior while Velma got a job in the city and never asks about the baby. Rita and Tom, she writes, moved to Montana after Tom got an administrative job in a copper mine. The Pickles, Queenie says, made her a friendship quilt which Rita says, in a letter, is on her and Tom's bed. Rita, Queenie adds, "turned into an even better friend after she moved away." Finally, Queenie tells how the Celebrity Quilt was bought by a man from a neighboring town who was unable to read and therefore, as one of the Pickles suggests, probably had no idea whose names he slept under.

The Persian Pickle Club gathers at...