It is January and Mrs. Guinea picks Esther up at the asylum to take her to her college dormitory. Esther's memory is intact - she can recall everything: the cadavers, the fetuses, the episiotomy, Doreen, Marco's diamond, Dr. Gordon, her suicide attempts and more.
Buddy arrives in his mother's car to visit her before she leaves the asylum and gets stuck in a snowdrift. Esther discovers that she feels nothing for him, but she gets a shovel and helps dig him out, doing most of the work because it's too strenuous for him after his TB.
Then Buddy asks Esther a question: does she think that there's something about him that drives women crazy, since he dated both Joan and her and both of them became mentally ill? Esther tells him, "You had nothing to.....
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