Always and Forever, chapter 5

Amabel and Oliver enjoy an evening and an afternoon together (not staying with each other overnight, of course!). Amabel answers Dolores's questions about this, not realizing that Dolores is not as kind as she seems. Miriam persuades Dolores to fire her, asking her to do so for several days, and even lying that Miriam and Oliver had recently spent the night together, because Miriam Is Wicked. Dolores does this with a cruelty and dispatch that Miriam would have approved: she gives Amabel notice in the morning, and expects her to be packed and out of her room within an hour or two of the end of the workday. Amabel's aunt is away, so she's forced to rent a shabby room (for a high rate, because of the pets). She has to leave there a day or two later, and then she's almost reduced to the free beds at the Salvation Army. She goes to a little medieval church that she had pointed out to Oliver on one of their walks, so she can try to figure out where to go next. Luckily, Oliver finds her there.