Summary: page 98-115

Ben is five and is being sent to school by Harriet. He refuses to go so Harriet calls John and makes him persuade Ben into going to school. Ben seems to be coming home later and later, going to school then hanging out with John and his friends. Harriet feels as if the family has fallen apart, with Luke and Helen at boarding school and Jane and Paul in higher classed excluding them from seeing Ben at all during school. The teacher said Ben was trying hard but was still an odd ball. It took more effort to teach Ben then the whole class combined. During his first quarter in school he did fine.
It was the second quarter that was the problem. Bed had hurt a girl on the playground and then bite her. Harriet told him if he ever hurt anyone again he would be sent back to the institution. He was taken to a doctor to be examined again. When the doctor said Ben was completely normal Harriet started to freak out. She kept telling the doctor that there is something wrong with him and everyone blames her for it. She suggests that Ben might be a creature different from everyone else but the doctor just laughs about it.
Although Ben was difficult to handle Paul was worse. He seemed to be a disturbed child. Luke and Helen rarely came home, they usually went to their grandparents for holidays. Jane started living with Dorothy and Aunt Sarah, coming home only on special occasions. John decided it was time for him and his gang to move so they did. This left Ben feeling lonely. Harriet discovered that she could teach Ben thing through Paul. Ben often repeated what he would say bout would forget within minutes. He was not capable of memorizing a full story but just parts.