Chapters IV and V Summary

In June of 1969, Ursa is still singing at the Spider. A drunk tells her he's gotten his first job at the Drake Hotel and asks her to come watch him. Ursa says she occasionally sees Tadpole and heard that he and Vivian got together. She receives divorce papers that make her a "free woman." A man named Austin Bradley buys Happy's and asks Ursa to come to work for him, but she declines. He hires a woman from Detroit instead.

One day Ursa meets Jeffy, now all grown up and called Jeffrene. She is a nurse at the Narcotics Hospital. Ursa would have passed by without speaking but Jeffy calls out to her. She says Cat was injured in an industrial accident that pulled a portion of her scalp off so that she now has to wear...