As the night progresses, Clare’s judgment of her friends continues to demonstrate how having Henry in her life has caused her to mature faster than her peers. Clare doesn’t waste time worrying about boys like the other girls—she has more significant concerns. Still, though Clare believes that she is more mature than her friends, her belief in the Ouija board as a supernatural source of knowledge highlights her youth. She does not question the board’s assertion that she will marry a man named Henry. She believes this both because she still has faith in the spiritual world and because, on some level, she wants the board’s prediction to come true.