Part 2: Chapter 4 Summary

This chapter is a flashback to the Guggenheim year the Morgans spent in Florence, Italy. This year was important to Larry because he realize there, most specifically on one September morning, that the place he had been striving so to get to he had finally arrived at. In detail, he recalls that morning in September. The church bells wake him at 6:00 like usual. He hears unusual sounds and goes to the French doors opening onto the terrace above their street. He sees a procession of people with swinging lanterns, donkeys, people laughing and holding cigarettes.

Larry goes back into the bedroom and carries Sally to the terrace so she can see. They guess that the procession is market carts bringing vegetables in from the countryside. They stay outside and watch them from under a quilt on their terrace. After it is...