 In the first section, readers get to know the two schools Eva went to as a young girl.The first school, owned by her father Willy Trout and administered by Constantine's lover Kenneth, is one of the rare places where Eva feels at home but it also has a traumatic effect on her insofar as Eva's roommate Elsinore attempts to commit suicide by drowning herself in the lake.It is in the second school that Eva meets Iseult Smith from whom she receives the attention she has craved all her life.