Book 3, Part 6 Summary

Allison and the now-happy Kathy Ellsworth have a conversation, in which Allison comments that she and love don't mix well. Later, she grieves over the love and the people she'd lost—Rodney to Betty Anderson, Norman to his mother, Constance to Makris. "I thought it would be different in New York," she thinks. "Where did I go wrong? What's the matter with me?"

Upon arriving in New York she had immediately found a roommate, Steve "Stephanie" Wallace. She experienced a tedious, crushing process to find an agent, and she eventually connected with Bradley Holmes, with whom she'd fallen desperately in love. Holmes had helped start her off on her career, selling stories to magazines and encouraging her to write a novel, and became aware of Allison's growing infatuation with him and tried to head it off by introducing her to...