Summary

This chapter opens up and it is springtime. Marie, Eric's daughter, is on the roof of the house with her friends, Georg and Lena. The reader learns that she visits her father, secretly, in a small room in the presbytery at her uncle's church. No one knows that her father lives there. She hates going to visit him, but she does. It has been a year since the reader learned of Eric's impending arrest. He was not arrested but has been hiding out in the church's basement. He is happy because just when the noose was starting to tighten an economic bust happened and all of a sudden no one thought to question problems in the books. Her father shows up on the roof and gives them a bow and arrows, then leaves. Marie promises Georg that the arrows aren't pointed.

No one...