Part 2, Waiting 2 Summary

Dolores, as an adult, has received a letter from the social services informing her of her mother's death. Dolores leaves her home immediately and goes to Cardiff. She imagines her sisters as they must be now, grown and with children of their own. She buys them gifts and imagines what will happen when they meet again. The city has changed from how she remembers it. There has been a lot of new development, and her old neighborhood is in the center of the recent changes. All the houses have been emptied, and the streets have been blocked off. The cab driver drops her at the corner and leaves her to find her own way.

Dolores goes to the house but does not have a key. She knocks on the door of the house beside hers where Eva once lived, but no...