Chapter Eight Summary

In Chapter Eight, Lorene goes home for spring break. Her grades arrive. Lorene fails calculus and she needs extensive help. She wants to drop it altogether, but Mom and Dad say she must give it a go next term. She does very well in all her other courses. She has a High Honors in English and four other Honors. The students return for spring at St. Paul's. She continues to flail about in calculus, and she gets a tutor instead of going to class. But the tutor cannot help her. She chooses crew for a spring sport. She has trouble getting the rhythm of rowing, but she does not hate it. She likes watching the scenery.

Ricky writes her and invites her to his school. She goes. They walk around and meet his friends. She refuses to sleep with him. She...