How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
I unfasten the window and go out; at once the fear leaves me like a hand lifting from my throat. There must be rules: places I'm permitted to be, other places I'm not. I'll have to listen carefully, if I trust them they will tell me what is allowed. I ought to have let them in, it may have been the only chance they will give me. (23.5)
Once the narrator has gotten rid of her friends, she starts pursuing some kind of connection or communion with her (deceased) parents. She starts looking for signs or clues of what she can do to make that happen. In the middle of the night, she thinks she hears something—or someone—trying to get in, but she isn't sure what it is. Later, she thinks it was her parents, and she regrets not answering.