Part 1, Chapter 10 Summary

While Axel is in Ohio, Rudolph takes up the slack in the bakery, making the rolls and keeping the books. Rudolph has discovered that the bakery makes very little money after the rent, expenses, and the salary of the woman who runs the shop now that Mary is ill. Rudolph lies down for a nap and wakes to hear his parents fighting in the hallway below him. Mary is moving into Gretchen's room, no longer interested in her husband's sexual appetites. Mary is also upset to have discovered that her husband had five thousand dollars and he wasted it on Thomas, who should have been in jail anyway. Mary also tells Axel about their daughter, how she made eight hundred dollars selling herself. Then Mary locks herself in Gretchen's room. Rudolph comes down to help his father in the bakery. Axel...