"Beloved" by Toni Morrison (187 - 273 pp)

 It was time for Sethe to sort everything out. At first Halle, then Baby Suggs, and Paul D kept her going, but her husband and mother-in-law had died, and Pual D was at work all all days long. Thant's why Sethe took the girls and went to the green blessed place, on Baby Suggs' rock (where earlier Baby helped people were cleansed of their sins, that's why she was known as Baby Suggs, holy). Sethe wanted her mother-in-law to calm her, give her a hint about what to do; she wanted to feel her fingers. The woman bowed her head and they were there. The fingers' touching was light, but then they became stronger; they began to strangle her. Sethe tumbled forward from her seat on the rock, her feet were thrashing. Then Denver and Beloved got to her, and the fingers left off. Beloved helped Sethe by rubbing her neck. Her fingers  were so cold and knowing. The woman closed her eyes, as the girl'shelped her to relax and restore breathing, and Beloved leaned over and kissed her chin. Sethe didn't know how to behave herself, but then waved the girls to their feet and went home. On the way the woman thought about fingers' touching that strangled her, as they didn't belong belong to Baby Suggs, her fingers she didn't forget.

   Sethe didn't know the answer, while Denver was absolutely sure that it was Beloved's doing, though the last one denied everything. The girl tried to abandon the idea of Beloved's guilt, as she didn't want to hurt and lose her; she did everything to keep her to herself when Sethe was working. But in contrast to Denver, Belover didn't need the girl, the onlu thing she wanted was Sethe's attention, that was turned to Paul D. And the young women hated him for that.

   Paul D loved Sethe, that house, the work he was doing, but he notice that be began moving out of that place. rThe beginning was so simple. One day after the supper Paul D sat in the rocket and fell asleep. He had slept all day and felt refreshed, though he expected his back to fight it, but it didn't. Another day, after the supper Paul D sat in the rocket but could't fell asleep. He went to Baby Suggs' room and slept on her bad (where she actually died). Another evening, after the supper when he went to that bad, he realised that didn't want to be there and went to the storeroom. Then Paul D appeared in the shed, behind the house.