Summary Chapter XIII

Character ListLaman Griffin- Angelas cousin and lover for a short time. Frank has a fight with Laman that causes Frank to move in with his Uncle Ab.

Theresa Carmody- A seventeen-year-old consumptive girl with whom Frank has a sexual relationship. Frank desperately worries about the fate of Theresas immortal soul, which he thinks he is jeopardizing by having premarital sex with her.

Mr. McCaffrey- Franks boss at Easons, Ltd., a company that imports and distributes Protestant newspapers from Northern Ireland.

Report SpeechThe Reported speech or indirect style is a structure that we use when reporting or menion about something someone said previously.

We use reported speech when we are saying what other people say, think or believe.

ExamplesShe says I'm your mother

Mr. McCaffre says my weiting is clear

She told me he had asked her to marry him

We think you are right

I believe he loves her

When we are reporting things in the present, future or present perfect we don't change the tense.He thinks he loves her

I'll tell her you are coming

He has said he'll do it