Chapters 18 and 19 Summary

Chapter 18 - Every day for six days after the exams are written, Ida and Felix take the Model T a mile down the road to check the mailbox, and on every one of those six days, the mailbox is empty. On the seventh day, however, the mailbox holds two envelopes, one for Felix and one for Ida. When Ida opens hers, she finds three letters from Miss Sedgwick. The first says Ida has graduated with honors, the second says that all the students (except Herbert) passed, and the third offers Ida free board in Miss Sedgwick's home as a kind of scholarship, when Ida attends high school in Steamboat Springs. When Ida tells Felix that Herbert didn't pass, she adds that she thinks he failed on purpose so as not to anger his father.

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