Settling Accounts
- Truman and Meridian are lying in sleeping bags. He's begging her to love him the way she did "a long time ago" (3.33.3). Meridian, as usual, rebuffs him.
- Truman notices a new photograph on the wall of the Sojourner's stump. Amazingly, there's a small branch growing from the side. Even more amazingly, the photograph is from Anne-Marion.
- Meridian asks Truman if he remembers when a woman "attacked" her and "slammed the door" during a recent voter registration effort (3.33.11). He does.
- She explains that the woman did that because Meridian knows a secret about her family—that her husband fell in love with a dog. For real. The wife confronted him about it, but he sided with the dog. Naturally, she moved out.
- It wasn't long, however, before she came back—he was a decent guy, after all, besides this one huge thing. Her sole request is that he "promise to kill the dog" (3.33.15).
- Truman asks her if the husband actually killed the dog. To Meridian, that's not the point.