Part 2, Chapter 6 Summary

Thomas takes a train to Port Philip the next morning to retrieve the money he left in a bank's safe deposit box there. Thomas has seven hundred dollars in his pocket he won betting on himself the night before and hopes that Teresa will allow him to keep at least five hundred of it. Teresa is angry with him for not telling him about his brother and sister and angry that they seemed to look down on her. The more Thomas thinks about it, the more he feels that Rudolph did look down on his wife. Thomas's life is looking up, though. His manager called him that morning and told him that he had a fight in London, a fight that could make his whole career. Briefly, Thomas thinks about going to Ohio to find Clothilde because it is all too...