Dinner party

Oddly enough the men tell the women to get ready to have dinner with them at the Hotel in a private room, as opposed to in their cabins. They are given some pretty shabby dresses and 2 days to sew them into presentability. Most of them try to look pretty except for Reenie who chooses the most unbecoming and modest of the dresses. The rest are trying out this dinner party mentality. They are unsure as to what the free kitchen staff thinks of them. Back home they deal with jealousy pride and pity because they are the Masters women but they are not sure of the attitudes here. This feeling of being ostracized at home binds them together at the resort each summer.

Reeniw is filling her masters pipe, sweets master has his head in her cleavage, Mawu's master is drunk and getting drunker and Drayle is asking Lizzie to dance. You can really start to see the difference in each girsl situation. They all note the hotel manager checking out Reenie and Lizzie is getting nervous. However Lizzie is paying more attention to how the servants are serving so she can learn how to "serve fancy" back at home. She still managers to have pride in her jobs I guess.

The hotel manager has a quick conversation with Reenie's master, who goes over and talk to Reenie. Reenie yells NO!, says she's not doing it. Mawu trys to jump in and help , Sweet starts to cry and Lizie starts to plead with Drayle. Their reactions are all indicative of their character thus far. Reenie goes limp and has a look of a woman that is done fighting. Mawu chastises Reenies Master, (Sir) who smacks her in the face and says "don't try to come between my and my property." Reenie is forced in to the managers bed for the rest of the summer.

Lizzie later asks Reenie her story (stories don' t get told lightly). Turns out Reenies master is her own brother and her daughter is her daughter and her niece. She had her family help fix her so she can;t have anymore babies, but her brother keeps sleeping with her. Her mother was raped by Sirs father until he died. After he died his wife had her beaten until one day she just disappeared.

Lizzie can;t stop thinking about how different her life is with Drayle. How good he is to her children. She can;t believe that Reenies mother just left so she thinks she must be dead, she can;t imagine a mother leaving her childred. She is also scared because she knows the fugitive slave law was just passed and the northerners have to help the slave catchers now.

Meanwhile a free black barber comes to cut the mens hair. He is trying to buy Phillip from Drayle. Lizzie is not getting this, but the barbers daughter is with him and looking at Phillip. d Drayle doesn;t want to seel and can;t understand why or how the barber could could want to buy this slave. Lizzie is starting to realizie that is Drayle won't free Phillip for a good price, who he can easily replace, he will most likely never free her children. Lizzie, though, dope that she is, just think show wonderful Drayle is that he discussed the matter with the barber as if her were a white man. She really is pretty ignorant and blinded by love I guess. Ugg! What an idiot.

Mawu gets that the barber is trying to buy Phillip because his daughter who works at the plantation is in love with him.