Mavis and Gigi represent two very different modes of femininity, which causes them to clash. Mavis is motherly, cautious, and largely unsexual after her traumatic marriage to Frank. Gigi, on the other hand, is young, reckless, and indulgently sexual. The girl who arrives at the end of the chapter is not named, but she is almost certainly Arnette. Arnette worries about August approaching because she is scheduled to begin her first year at college, and she needs to terminate her pregnancy. This reference to the time of year is the part of her claim that is true––she has not been raped, since the book makes no indication that her relationship with K.D. was not consensual. The fact that Arnette, a respected young woman of Ruby, comes to the Convent for help highlights that many of Ruby’s women silently depend on the Convent.