Part 1, Missing Summary

The adult Dolores remembers sitting on the bridge for hours until Eva comes along and finds her. Mary is nowhere to be found. Dolores explores the house, remembering Eva and comparing her to a woman she works with at the library. Dolores thinks of the gifts she has brought for her sisters, feeling bad that they are not more personal. Dolores again thinks some stranger has been in her mother's house, moving things around to where they do not belong. She sits on the bed where her mother died and studies the living room. A brass bell she once played with sits on the dresser. Dolores picks it up and is surprised to find it is not brass after all but lacquered tin. She thinks of Fran, of Luca, of Eva, and she remembers Salvatore. Dolores adds him to her mental...