Chapters 17 - 20 Summary

On the way to mail Eddie's picture in chapter seventeen, Gram tells Lily that she must practice the piano for thirty minutes. Lily sits down to practice but ends up daydreaming about Poppy and Ruth Orban, who is in a convent in Paris. Lily pulls Gram's atlas off the shelf and tries to find Budapest, Hungary, where Albert is from. A short while later, Lily begins picking out "The Blue Danube" on the piano. Gram invites Albert in to wait for Lily while she practices. At the end of the thirty minutes, Lily and Albert leave Gram's house and head for the post office.

In chapter eighteen, Lily and Albert go to Margaret's house in order to retrieve the money which is sewn into Albert's collar. Albert tells Lily that he used to play the violin at his grandmother's restaurant in...