Chapters 45-48 Summary

Chapter 45 concludes the memoir. Having rid himself of Prosperine, Papa orders Ignazia to his bed, forbids her to tell Guglielmo or he will reveal her crimes. Papa grows busier, more famous, richer, and politically powerful. Ignazia does her duties with contempt and withdraws from everything. Fearing that Ignazia will poison him, he searches the kitchen and find Prosperine and Ignazia in bed as lovers. Papa buys a police dog and gets Prosperine committed to an asylum, ending the battle. On 10 Januaary, 1925, Papa finds the dog poisoned and Ignazia gone. The police find her body in frozen Rosemark's Pond. Concettina is hiding in a shack. She becomes Papa's silent housemaid. Papa ends his memoir hoping that God will save his soul.

In Chapter 46 Dominick meets Dr. Azzi, learns that gangrene is the starving of living tissues and feels sick, seeing Ray's covered...