Part One, Chapter 6 Summary

Jamie and Allie have a meeting with Graham. Jamie is despondent, because he has not felt Maggie since his arrest. Allie assures him he will soon. When Graham arrives, he begins to go over their defense strategy with them. Graham wants to gather character witnesses for Jamie. Allie volunteers to go to his hometown of Cummington and speak to his neighbors and friends. Jamie questions her ability to leave Cam that long, but Allie assures him she has no problem leaving Cam for a few days.

Ellen McDonald, Cam's mother, has embraced New Age ideas ever since her husband died eight years before. No one in town understands this behavior except for Allie who seems to be the only person who sees how happy these beliefs have made Ellen. Ellen does not believe in these things, because she thinks...