Chapter 9 Summary

In this chapter, Anna returns to her grandparents' summer home to ask her grandfather for money in order to pay Muth.

When Anna arrives at the summer lodgings, she finds her grandmother asleep on a couch near the kitchen. She sits quietly until her grandmother stirs, and her grandmother says she did not remember that Anna was coming. Anna tells her she is there for the afternoon, and her grandmother asks her if she has come to ask her grandfather for money. Anna replies that she has, and her grandmother tells her that it is nothing to be ashamed of. Then, she involves Anna in her dinner and pie preparations and the two begin to talk.

Anna's grandmother asks about Molly, and mutters to herself about Anna's divorce without realizing that her words are audible. Anna tries to explain to her grandmother that...