Part 2, Chapter 19 Summary

Celesta, Rose and Luca are in the kitchen when Dolores returns to the house. Celesta has the death towel, and she has covered some sandwiches with it. Later, Rose dries wine glasses with the same towel. Dolores wants to tell them what Mrs. Riley used it for, but she decides it is too late. The four girls talk about the funeral. Dolores attempts to move the conversation toward the past, but her sisters cut her off at every attempt.

Dolores goes into the kitchen closet to retrieve the wine glasses and has a memory of her mother playing hide and seek with her, only her mother has forgotten the seek part. Dolores is pretty sure a man comes to see her mother while she hides there, but she does not see him. Eventually she slips out of the closet and goes...