Summary

In Chapter 21, "Chicago, 1996," Becky learns of Mac's death. At the funeral, she feels a void. She has outgrown "this very group of people she had once desperately ached to join" (206). At the reception, she makes conversation with a guest, selling him a sketch for a high markup. When the buyer tells her they can finish their communications via email, Becky panics. The shift to online bookkeeping will ruin everything. At the hotel, she calls Ingrid, still revealing nothing of her double life. In the morning she decides she will become over-involved in the office's technological shifts in order to "adapt the Activity to the Internet" (213).

In Chapter 22, "Pierson, Milan, Paris, Pierson, 1997 - 1998," Becky owes "Pierson around three million," all of which she plans on paying back (216). Meanwhile, she basks in the success of her Barn.

In February of 1997, Becky visits Milan with Jessa...