Part I: Section 22 Summary

Lester wakes Kathy at dawn Monday, with coffee hot and ready for her. He is wearing his uniform and can drop her off at the motel if, he says, she wants to get her things. She says she does. He pays the motel bill and says he'll meet her back at the cabin at 7 p.m. Kathy later sits smoking in her car, thinking first about what all her counselors would say-using alcohol and sex to self-medicate-but the sex, at least, was beginning to feel like love to her. She checks her mail and notices her most recent gas and electric bills. Then she notices a postcard from her mother asking if she had a new telephone number, saying she might visit over the Labor Day weekend. Kathy writes to the gas and electric company and demands that they...