Elena has sex with Nino's father on the beach, losing her virginity, while Nino and Lila spend the night together. Stefano finds out about Nino and Lila's affair, with the predictable results: Stefano beats her again. Everyone goes back to Naples. There's some stuff about the neighborhood gossip that I don't really care about too much. A lot if feels perfunctory, like it doesn't really matter for the main story, which is the friendship of Lila and Elena. What makes the novel work is that we don't really know what's in Lila's mind, so there's an element of mystery, of information withheld.
Elena starts studying harder than ever; she is a tutor for younger kids and earns 70 thousand lire, she graduates top of her class and they tell she can study for free at a University in Pisa. She goes there and feels humiliated at the entrance exam, which is far more difficult than the high school graduation exams were, but they still let her in. Now she is 19.
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This is starting to get quite fun
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