Summary

Before Hector leaves China he has dinner with Edouard. They go to the same fine restaurant where they can see the city lights and boats in the sea below. Hector attempts to explain his research to Edouard using an explanation of the possibility of five families of Happiness: two families of exciting happiness, two families of calm happiness, and one family of happiness that comes from others. Edouard is really only able to relate to the two families of exciting happiness. Hector tries to introduce Edouard to the fifth family of happiness. At the end of Chapter 31, Hector asks Edouard if he can use Edouard's cell phone, which the narrator explains in Chapter 32 is because he calls Eduardo, who sometimes makes business trips to China, and has him scare Ying Li's bosses out of owning her any longer. She then goes to work...