Chapter Five
The weekend came and went. So did Maries Saturday-night date, which turned out even less well than she had feared it would. The handsome young graphic artist had been pursuing her for months with such earnest sincerity that shed finally agreed to go out with him against her better judgment.
To be perfectly fair to poor Jason, the date might not have seemed so flat and uninteresting if she hadnt crept down below that Friday night to see for herself what Cheryl had been rhapsodizing about. As it was, though, Jason had done himself no favors. They went first to see an experimental play. The experiment seemed to be finding out just how much babbling nonsense anyone in the audience would put up with before they got up and left. Jason wanted to stay all the way through it, an
