Summary

Chapter 3 begins with Rosie receiving word from Boston: Mother is very sick. Mazie and Jeanie, scared when Louis and Rosie took them away from that city 10 years ago, haven't seen their parents since. Rosie and Louis debate whether she ought to travel alone to see her mother, and when Mazie offers to go she is turned down. After this, with Rosie out of town, Mazie goes out drinking in order to forget about all the recent sadness and troubles, and meets a brawny sailor: Captain Benjamin Hazzard. They end up having wild sex on the night-cloaked Brooklyn Bridge, and the captain returns to his ship. Mazie is smitten, and when Sister Tee visits the ticket booth asking for help with a war widow and her three babies, Mazie wants no part, but gives everything in her purse, imagining the nun as a con...