If it hadn’t been for Doris Pomeroy, we might have broken rank right there and then. Doris, who was in Grade 9 and had a home permanent and sometimes wore nail polish and had even, it was rumored, gone swimming in the quarry all alone with Elton Lawrence, flicked a rock against the schoolhouse wall in the silence following Minnie’s remark and steadied us all by saying: “Don’t be foolish, Minnie. All we have to do is wait. They need us to field and, besides, they kind of like to have us out there looking at them when they get up to bat.” Here is the passage for the questions I posted.