Failure Is an Option
- Back at school, Robert is having trouble with exams: the narrator calls it a "hellweek of testing" (4). The Mysterious Stranger comes to tell Robert that the school could fail him, not like in the old days when everyone got passing grades. (Wait, when was that?)
- But Juan is somewhat hopeful about their composition project.
- Meanwhile, at home, things are still tense, what with Alice training, Bob worried about Alice, and the whole thing in Chapter 16 where Robert freaked out about Alice using the front bathroom.