Summary

The narrator begins Section 3 by telling the reader of Anette having a difficult time leaving the airport after Jacob leaves for America. She knows she has two young girls to care for and doesn't know how she'll do this by herself.

As Anette is walking home, an American couple pull up beside her and ask her to be a chambermaid at their establishment, the Gull Reef Club on Water Island. Anette is offended but is too brokenhearted to fight; instead, she goes home and goes to bed. The narrator indicates that Anette will in one year be at that very same club, though there is no indication of why.

In America, Jacob goes to his dentist brother and has his red tooth bleached and his wisdom teeth removed. Jacob screams, "I am real! I am real!" when he wakes...