How It All Goes Down
- Working in the kitchen is no easy task. Rachel gets up before the sun, drops Jacob off at Widow Jenkins's house, and arrives at the camp at 5:30AM where she helps set the tables and prepare the food for the workers. Boy, can they eat.
- Rachel gets the cold shoulder from most of the other workers.
- Sometimes, she'll ask to sit with one of them and get a witty reply like, "I don't sit with whores." Oh, snap.
- Her friend Joel comes over and sits with her, telling her not to worry about the others. Who cares what they think?
- He tells her that Jacob is getting big and strong.
- Rachel likes the compliment even though she feels she doesn't know much about babies.
- We learn that Joel is a hard worker and Rachel's even heard talk of him being promoted.
- He's modest, too. He doesn't pay much attention to the hype. When he can, he's going to ditch this town for someplace without such mean people.
- After Joel gets up from the table, Rachel notices Serena on her horse in the distance.
- She thinks to herself that Serena is smart not to allow Rachel near her food.
- Rachel also considers how her life has gone up until this point and figures that she made the right choice being with Pemberton, even if it did cost her a dad.
- Wait a minute… She scolds herself for thinking this and gets back to work.