Summary

In Section 25, Jane listened as Paul left and the door opening and closing downstairs. She heard Paul giggle and his shoes on the gravel walking toward the garage. She had left her bicycle by the garage and thought about how Emma would have seen if it she had shown up unannounced. She stayed in the bed, not moving for an indeterminable time. She finally got up and went to the window and then looked back at the sheets and the stain and how it trickled out of her, “a maid” (77). In Section 26, Jane went into the bathroom and removed the Dutch cap for birth control that Paul helped her get. In the future, she would think about how different it might have been if she had gotten pregnant. And how it was strange that he referred to his emission as his “seed” (79).

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