In this short scene, the pregnant girl, who is a student at a mixed-race school, tells the reader that her class mates are still away from her, but that she has noticed that some of them are still in "summer holiday mood" . She asks one of her classmates to tell her if there are any other students in the class who are still "in summer holiday mood," and the boy replies that he is "pretty polite" , but she would rather "just ignore him and run" if he tries to follow her