Part 2, Chapter 3 Summary

F. Jasmine goes to Bernice's house in Sugarville to have her fortune told by Bernice's mother. On the way, she stops to look at the jail, which has haunted the old Frankie ever since she took the pocketknife from Sears and Roebuck last spring. F. Jasmine finds that the jail does not scare her now that she knows she is leaving.

It is after 8 o'clock when F. Jasmine reaches Sugarville. She asks Big Mama to tell her future. First, Big Mama asks to hear her most recent dream. F. Jasmine remembers a dream in which she faced an opening door. It gave her a funny feeling, and she woke up.

Big Mama says that a change is coming in F. Jasmine's life. She claims to see the wedding, with both a departure and a return. Later, Big Mama says, there will...