Summary

Chapter 28. After a couple of weeks of being restricted by her grandmother to life at work and at home, Queenie makes plans to go to a movie by herself. On her way out of the office, she runs into Ted, seeing him with his pregnant wife. She tells Kyazike and Darcy, who both urge her to not say anything to her. The next day, Queenie prepares to go with Kyazike to view a new apartment. “Is this what growing into an adult woman is,” she comments in narration, “having to predict and accordingly arrange for the avoidance of sexual harassment?” (308). On her way out she again runs into Ted, who insists upon talking to her. Out in front of the office, he explains that as a result of suicidal reactions to bad breakups, he married his wife in order to give himself...