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Pure Chapter 8 Summary

How It All Goes Down

Partridge (Knife)

  • Apparently Partridge is pretending to be a jerk. It's all part of his plan to steal a key out of Lyda's pocketbook.
  • While pretending to storm off to the bathroom, he runs into Glassings, who is the only adult he feels comfortable joking with. After a few awkward back-and-forths, Glassings tells Partridge that he knows he stole stuff from his mother's metal box.
  • Glassings tells him he's not alone, but then tells him to hang around with Arvin Weed, a very smart boy in the Dome. Partridge is relieved Glassings doesn't know his full intentions of leaving the Dome.
  • Partridge then enters the Domesticity Display in Founders Hall, which is what Lyda's key grants access to. Here, Partridge searches for a knife.
  • But Lyda walks in on him snooping around.
  • For some reason, she tells him she'll count to twenty and let him do what he wants to. He grabs the knife, and they walk back to the dance, hand-in-hand.
  • Lyda and Partridge then kiss on the dance-floor.