Romona's father has a job again, Romona hopes now her mother will stay home and not be so tired all the time, and she won't have to stay with Howie's grandmother after school. Maybe now she will be singled out like her sister Beezus, in front of company as Mother's girl. Romona knows that would make her a good girl. But the life at the Quimby husehold is not going as Romona would like.
