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Quote #10
And I didn't mind too much about Royce. He was friendly enough, but either he was keeping his distance, or I was keeping mine. We'd both been strangers in their midst here, but was that enough? I guessed not and didn't mind too much. Really, not at all, hardly. (6.162)
Mary Alice finds that she and Royce don't get much closer for the rest of the school year, despite the fact that they have their outsider status in common. But she's okay with that—she doesn't want to force his hand and make him enter a relationship with her.