He asks her to take two weeks leave and go with him to Florida and other places. When they are in Charleston she tells him that she is tired of deciding and asks him to decide if she should go back to Gopher Prairie. He tells her to take the decision because he wants her to be satisfied when she returns home. She feels a new respect for Kennicott.

Kennicott returns to Gopher Prairie and writes to her about all the happenings in Gopher Prairie. Carol consults the leader of the suffrage movement whether she should return home. The leader tells her that people like her are not really useful to her because the movement needs really dedicated people without any attachments and she points out that Carol has a son. She gives Carol a simple doctrine. She should go on asking disturbing questions like why is it so and who made the rule. She asserts that if many people asked questions, things would change faster. Carol decides to go back. She also decides that she will not be afraid to ask questions.

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