Summary

On Monday morning, “Alice was first in the queue for the courthouse,” and she brings freshly baked cornbread for the deputy (363). Sven is back and sitting in the gallery, and the trial begins again. The defense begins that “Margery O’Hare here is a victim of unhappy circumstance,” when Kathleen bursts in and says there is a witness who needs to speak immediately. The judge is reluctant to have her speak, but considering her importance to the victim, he allows it. The courtroom is shocked.

The questioning begins, and they establish that there are two daughters and that their mother’s whereabouts are unknown. Verna also tells the court the last time they saw their father was five days before Christmas, and that he said, “he was going to return his library book” (367). He said that he enjoyed the books he got from...