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By Tuesday, Jude was already getting into a routine. She did as much of her morning homework as she could at lunch, then spent at least an hour recovering from P.E. before dinner, then after dinner she read in the courtyard for a while before heading upstairs to the day room and the homework for her afternoon classes. The others were settling into something of a routine as well, with Mary usually retreating to her room after dinner. Her prickliness had diminished a bit, but some things could still trigger it, and she seemed to want to avoid causing trouble. Devon, on the other hand, seemed to be making an effort to be actively pleasant to Jude – mostly by avoiding any discussion of Lorelei Lacy. She seemed unable to reconcile those books with what she saw Jude doing on a daily basis, so she had evidently decided to ignore what she didn’t like. Jude was in the day room Wednesday night, finishing up her Algebra homework. They hadn’t lost a single student from Mrs. Sloane’s first