"The Fourth Lesson." Eddie and Marguerite talk about the pain of being apart and of her early departure at only forty-seven. She assures him that she has always been with him, and that his love has continued. The lesson is that lost love is still love; it just takes a different form. Life has to end; love doesn't.
Readers are now back in the present on the Pier, and Eddie's co-worker and an estate attorney are going through Eddie's apartment to find a bank statement and any other.....
