Scene in Bucharest with the old man in the woods the fairy tale of water nymph and loss as forerunner of cynasim


The man is frequent vistor in the home for the four years that have passed between now and the scene above. Theo never sees the woman again and does not know what decame of her broach.

 where he had been idling, thinking about the funeral of the painter Munkácsy, so many years ago, but thinking not of the painter at all, but as he always has -- as the night he learned that things could disappear. Or, more properly, that things could be made to appear as if they disappeared - hidden in plain sight. 
	

meets her on the street they go off to some park...

	Your father wants me to go down the river with him again next week.
	Please don't call him that.
	Okay, fine, Lazlo wants me to go down the river
	If he were really my father, he would live with us. 
	In the palace.
	It's not a palace. It's just big and cold. 
	At least it doesn't smell of fish. Theo picks up a stone near his foot and tosses it into the grass.

... got out on a date, segue to river trip and chapter end