Part 3, Chapters 3 and 4 Summary

At the beginning of Chapter Three, Pinkie has been released from police custody and is fuming from the insult. He stalks over to Snow's and loudly demands a table, though there are none left. Rose hears him and runs to calm him down. She asks if his friend - whom she recognizes as the man who left the card - gave him her message. Pinkie chastises her, saying the man who left the card is dead.

Pinkie takes Rose with him out to the country and has her describe the inquisitive woman to him. Rose speaks disparagingly of Ida, saying she does not know right from wrong and lives too freely. As Rose talks, Pinkie recalls being younger and being forced to watch his parents have sex in the next room. He looks on Rose now as just another...