Walter was, she felt certain, responsible for the regular state of disrepair of the bathroom door lock.


Walter was, she felt certain, responsible for the regular state of disrepair of the bathroom door lock. If she got into the bath-tub, she could almost depend on Walter walking through the door and peering at her as she screamed at him from behind the shower curtain. She had no great love for her new step-father, either. Especially lately, he had been picking at her, complaining when she was out too late, and bitching about her friends, how they talked too much and too loud. Recently too there had been an episode that bothered her.

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