Summary

Pages 221 - 257 -- Eivor joins the crew of the steamship Oreius, and the captain does not realize she is not Harry Rattray, but a woman, until after they departed.

The perspective jumps to the biographer, who enters Mattie's home and speaks with her mother. She finds out that Mattie is in Vancouver, for what she told her mother was a history conference. The biographer returns to her home, and remembers Archie's struggles with heroin. She tries to make a list of what she is grateful for, but becomes filled with anger. She hopes that Mattie is stopped at the Canadian border so she cannot get an abortion.

The narrative shifts to the daughter, who is on a bus bound for Vancouver. When the bus reaches the border, she is taken aside by the border security officers.

The perspective moves to the mender, who sits...