Wanda’s Pregnancy

Wanda’s Pregnancy is not confirmed in the available scene. The passage does establish that something had happened between Wanda and Squares, and that Squares did not spend the previous night at home. It does not identify what happened, mention a pregnancy, or describe any consequence for Wanda. The distinction matters: the scene gives Wanda a place in Squares’s private life, but it does not provide enough information to treat pregnancy as an established condition.

What the Scene Establishes

Squares eats a bagel with lox while the narrator observes his drooping shoulders. The narrator understands that Squares had not stayed home and that something had happened between him and Wanda; he also recognizes that Squares does not want to be asked about it. That combination—an observable change in Squares and the narrator’s decision not to press him—marks the extent of what the passage makes knowable about Wanda’s circumstances.

Squares redirects the conversation by asking the narrator to continue explaining what could be worse. The narrator says that Sheila Rogers lied to him, then clarifies that the lie concerns her knowing Julie Miller. He has learned that the women were sorority sisters and roommates. Squares stops chewing at the news, then reacts to the coincidence that the narrator’s former girlfriend, murdered eleven years earlier, and his more recent girlfriend, also murdered, were connected in college. The scene thus supplies substantial detail about the investigation while leaving the private event involving Wanda unexplained.

The Scene’s Main Concern

The exchange develops around the question of whether Sheila’s connection to Julie was coincidence or evidence of deliberate concealment. Squares first considers whether Sheila might have forgotten the narrator’s name or never known that Julie had dated him. He dismisses that explanation as unconvincing, then considers the possibility that Sheila knew who the narrator was from the beginning. Neither man can yet say what purpose such knowledge would have served.

The narrator keeps returning to the unresolved Albuquerque double murder that the FBI wanted to ask Sheila about. He sets that investigation beside Julie’s earlier murder, making the overlap between the women and the cases the scene’s central puzzle. Wanda’s circumstances do not become part of that explanation in the supplied passage.

Limits of the Pregnancy Claim

The scene supports a narrow account: Wanda is connected to an undisclosed event involving Squares, and the narrator senses that Squares does not wish to discuss it. It does not state that Wanda is pregnant, identify the event as a pregnancy, or reveal whether either character expects or plans for a child. Nor does it establish a change in Wanda’s health, relationship, or future. Accordingly, pregnancy cannot be presented as a confirmed plot fact on the basis of this scene; the uncertainty is left unresolved while the conversation moves to Sheila Rogers and Julie Miller.