Part 3, Chapter 21 Summary

Kate, Julian, and Silas are meeting over lunch to talk about Silas's fiftieth birthday party. Julian's wife has left him. Julian chooses a restaurant called the "Crucible." Kate and Silas, on the way to the restaurant, talk about what they plan to do in the future. Kate thinks that Silas is going to ask her about her affair with Mikey, but he doesn't, even though she has prepared the speech in her mind. She wonders what Mikey will do with the information she gave him on Du Boise and she hopes that he won't do anything stupid. Kate then wonders if Mikey knows that Du Boise raped Lydia. As they pull up, Silas asks her if she knows that Du Boise is dying of cancer. They talk for a moment of the poetic justice that several perpetrators are now dying of...