The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, when Don Pedro and his boss, the boss of the organization, were in love. Don Pedro tells us that he and his new wife, now a sex-change victim, are going to return to America. He says that it's hard for him and his wife to accept their new life, but that they've been working hard to make it work. He's sure they'll be able to help the organization in some way, too. He wonders if his brother, inugane, is also working for the organization. In fact, he says, he's going to be helping out his brother's side of the business. He thanks Don Pedro for coming to see him, and he also thanks his brother-in-law, who's just returned from a trip to the United States. In the flashback, we learn that Don Pedro's wife, lina, is now a research student at the university in Budapest.