Part 3: Chapters 17, 18, and 19 Summary

Five years have passed and Claude and Lady now live in a fashionable townhouse in Manhattan where Lady brings Claude breakfast in bed every morning. Today Lady is already dressed to leave for her latest job of teaching art appreciation at a private school. Lady has had a string of jobs and volunteer activities over the past few years but she does not stay longer than a few months at any of them.

Lady reminds Claude of his doctor's appointment this morning and she leaves for work. Claude spends the morning leisurely and is struck by some chords which come into his head and he works in his music room too long making him late for his appointment. The doctor tells Claude that he does not produce living sperm which accounts for the couple's infertility all these years. Claude...