Summary

Chapter 32 takes place April 1 and 10, 1913; New York, New York. Pierpont is traveling in Egypt and has been taken to a hospital there. Belle receives a telegram that reads: “Mr. J.P. Morgan died in Rome on March 31, 1913. Arrangements are being made to bring him home” (248). She drops the telegram and begins to cry. She only now fully realizes how important they were to each other. She considered him father, companion, supporter, and “the lover for whom I longed but could never have” (249). She puts aside her grief, knowing the family will need her in the coming days. She joins the family at the pier when the ship arrives, bringing Pierpont's body home. She begins to feel better once she accepts that she cannot do anything to rectify that final argument. She decides she will not remember that “angry, despairing man he became in...