Chapters 9 and 10 Summary

The next morning Sughrue tries to make himself go for a run, but doesn't get very far. He's put to shame by Melinda, who leaves him in her athletic dust. Later, he walks through the nearby woods and encounters Trahearne's feisty mother Edna, who bullies him into catching some fish for her. After he's struggled to catch some trout, he then cleans them and takes them up to Edna's house, where she lives with Catherine. The cool, sophisticated and sexy Catherine thanks Sughrue for the fish, and asks him to send her an invoice so he can be paid. She then says she's going in to take a shower, and Sughrue watches her go. Back at the ranch, a drunken Trahearne passes out at the dinner table, leaving Sughrue to make conversation with Melinda. As she tells him the story of...