Summary

In Mountain View Violet, Pomelo and Magic Gourd are greeted and cared for by Charm. Pomelo decides to stay in Mountain View while Violet and Magic Gourd go back to Shanghai. Magic Gourd wants to open a courtesan house once they return to Shanghai but Violet plans to ask Loyalty for a job as a translator. She tells him she is putting her old way of life behind her. Two weeks after he hires her, Loyalty tells her she is accurate and indispensable. After she settles into her job, Violet asks Loyalty to assist her in contacting her mother and finding Flora. Violet and her mother begin a relationship through shared letters. Her mother has rented a house in Croton-on-Hudson where Flora and her family live. She has wheedled her way into a position as a...