Chapter Ten: Waverly Jong - Four Directions; deductive reasoning

Have you ever had exciting information to share, but your afraid of the persons reaction because the last tie you told them something it did not go so well? Well, that is how the news of Waverly's engagement is for her. She takes her mom to lunch in hopes of telling her, but because of deductive reasoning she chickens out. Waverly's last marriage ended because of her mother and she does not want her mom to freak out about this one. Waverly says, "My mother knows how to hit a nerve. And the pain I feel is worse than any other kind of misery" (170). Waverly was very happy and she did not want to feel that pain. Waverly takes her mom to her apartment in hopes of her mother picking up on the fact she is engaged, but her mother says nothing. Waverly invites her fiancee, Rich, to dinner with her mother and her so they can tell her mother. Waverly was not sure how Rich would react because she felt she knew how her mother would react. After all of this, Waverly's mother knows that they are engaged and is happy for them.