Summary

The Coda begins years later in 1975 with a description of an article about Serena. She has been a lumber baroness in Brazil for a long time. The reporter asks Serena if she has any regrets and Serena says she does not, then turns the conversation to another tract of land in Brazil she plans to buy. The article includes the picture of Serena on her horse with Pemberton standing beside her, which hangs on her hacienda wall.

A woman in a Seattle hospital reads the article and tears it from the magazine to place it in her family Bible. She has visitors everyday, including her husband and her son, who comes to see her every evening. She shows the article to her son.

A month later, a man arrives in Bertioga, San Paulo and enters Serena's hacienda in the night. He cuts the throat...