Part 2, Chapter 2 Summary

Liang Meng comes to the hospital to meet Manna. Lin introduces them and the three of them go to lunch, where Lin inexplicably becomes somewhat surly. Liang has to return home because his daughter is ill, but returns a few days later. He and Manna spend some time together and he writes Lin later that he is very interested in her and would like to return to woo her.

Manna tells Lin she is not at all attracted to Liang, and Lin is secretly delighted. Manna insists Lin is the one she loves, and he is not to suggest looking for another man again. She writes to Liang, telling him she feels poorly and suffers from serious rheumatic heart disease, which apparently scares him off. Lin never hears from his cousin again.

Part 2, Chapter 2 Analysis

Both Lin and Manna seem to...