In this chapter, we learn that noda has been living in Yokohama for a while, but that she has returned to visit her family. Noda's younger sister, who is studying at the university, has no plans to enter the music world, and noda, who has a part-time job, is proud of her sister's accomplishments. He tells her that if they had taken the piano from her, she would have had to pay a lot of money to attend music school, and she would not have been able to compete with the best students in the world. He says that if she had graduated from a music school that was "univer sity," people would think that she was "well bred" and "from a higher social class," and that she would never be able to play the piano again