Part Two: Chapters V through VIII Summary

The store is doing very well and Leo soon has enough money to buy foreign-made clothes. He stops in on a particular afternoon and demands that the clerk give him all the money from the cash register—apparently a common practic—and the clerk points out that Karp Karpovitch had objected to the practice. Kira continues to hold her Soviet job and she must wear old clothes to keep up the appearance of needing that job. There's a maid at home who helps her out of her work clothes and into the new clothing from the closet where several new coats and silk stockings are kept. She continues to make excuses to both Leo and Andrei.

Leo purchases an expensive vase as a gift for Victor upon his wedding but Kira...