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Woman on the Edge of Time Chapter 19 Summary

  • Connie is back in the hospital.
  • She and Sybil are going to be operated on soon.
  • Connie tells Sybil to escape; she gives her some money (left over from Dolly) and she tells her that Wednesday afternoon there will be a lot of confusion.
  • She tries to talk to Luciente, but it's hard. But she doesn't have anything else to do so she keeps trying.
  • Finally she gets through.
  • Luciente tells her that they were never fighting in the floaters. She thinks it may be a hallucination or vision, or something that happened in a different time continuum, or a different future.
  • Hawk says she's leaving to be with a performing troupe. Luciente is sad about Jackrabbit, but is still working.
  • Connie asks Luciente if it's wrong to kill.
  • Luciente says when you're being oppressed sometimes you have to fight back, and sometimes you have to kill, even if it's not right.
  • Connie says she's planning on killing people. Guess who?
  • The party goes on, Connie sees Dawn, who reminds her of her daughter, and then she zaps back to the past.
  • Connie is determined but frightened.
  • Next day she goes to the doctors to be interviewed.
  • They tell her they're going to operate on her.
  • Then they dismiss her.
  • She goes away, gets rid of the guard Tony by pretending she's confused, and dumps the poison into the coffee pot.
  • She goes back to her room and waits.
  • On the way she sees Sybil and tells her to be ready. (We never find out if Sybil escapes or not.)
  • She realizes she's cut herself off from Luciente and the future, but she's not sorry.
  • She hospitalized and maybe killed four of the doctors: probably Dr. Argent, Dr. Redding, Dr. Hodges, and Dr. Acker. Dr. Morgan was cutting down on coffee, and Ms. Moynihan seems sick but not in need of hospitalization.
  • Connie seems to think she has ensured the future by her act, though it's hard to tell whether she has or hasn't.