Hideo and Amy have a short conversation via phone. He really worries about his wife Sue who is expecting a baby, but as he has to be in San Francisco that afternoon he asks Amy for taking care of Sue while he is absent.
(Sue is nauseous and crampy)
p. 84, l. 18: "Your fellow Blues are really pissed off about you. They are out to get you for betraying them."
(Amy was degraded to an orange the day before and that´s why she is treated in an inferior way by Brian)
Carol, her former friend, tells her with a gleam of satisfaction that she has to sit behind her as an orange.
Amy feels
unbalanced. She hates her new role as an orange, having to bow so much
and taking insults from everyone. She has to be on guard as well.
Once again
she realises that poverty separates people more than color. She believes
that poverty is like a vicious circle.
Amy phones
Mrs. Tarcher but Adam´s mother seems cold and unfeeling unlike Adam.
Later on Adam drives Amy to Sue who is glad to see her. Hideo is in San
Francisco.
Sue knows the importance of her baby for the relationship to Hideo´s
and Amy´s Japanese parents and that´s why the worries so much.
She believes that she is accepted only with the baby and not without one.
"The baby is the only way they will accept me"..."The
baby makes all the difference."