Summary

In Chapter 45, Sofya waits down the street from Taras’ townhouse, around the time Max might return from school. Taras comes out of the house and turns back to look at Sofya as she passes. She wonders how he could not recognize her, as he had been a woodsman, “and everyone knows a Russian woodsman will hunt their prey until they die themselves” (354). The next morning, Sofya sees in the newspaper that Karina Shoumatoff had been murdered. She attends Karina’s funeral mass on Rue Daru the following day.

Sofya returns to Marchand de Cheveux and sells her hair for 400 francs. She had never handled so much money before, as her family had never carried it and there was no need for it at boarding school. Sofya returns to the sweetshop for candy, and purchases knives, vegetables, and kindling. Dr. Ambuskin agrees to help...