Miss Moore wonders if anyone else has learned anything from the day trip to F.A.O. Schwartz. Though she looks directly at Sylvia when asking this, Sylvia can only think of running off with Sugar to spend the remaining cab fare Miss Moore gave them on cake and ice cream sodas. However, we see that Sylvia has learned something as she and Sylvia run off for this treat, "She can run if she want to and even run faster. But ain't nobody gonna neat me at nuthin" (Bambara 462). In this manner, Bambara is showing that to overcome the injustices of social stratification based on race and income, individuals like Sylvia must become determine to fight against injustice to conquer it.