Summary

Chapter 13. Chapter 13 places the readers back in the past. For a few months, Joan rents rooms in Albany and Toronto under the name of Louisa K. Delacourt. The rooms are in neighborhoods where she doesn’t think her mother will find her. Eventually, she successfully loses all of her weight, collects her money from the lawyer, says goodbye to her father and buys a one-way ticket for London.

Chapter 14. When she first arrives in London she rents cheap rooms in different boarding houses. One day when she is getting off of a double-decker bus she trips and twists her ankle. The Polish Count helps her to a bench where he insists on aiding her on her trip back to her apartment. After seeing the squalor that she lives in, he insists that she come and live in his extra room. She agrees, but his extra...