Mr. Ward visits the Lopez family and shares his desire to buy the Yamamoto house. However, he says he wants to check the interior of the house first to see if there is “evidence that something un-American took place there” (506). Victor doesn’t know how to politely turn down his request in case he does buy the property. Victor would also want to be kept on. Ivy wonders once again what he will find.

Ivy inspects the Yamamoto house herself. She finds a secret room full of items: “Clearly, far more people than just the Yamamotos were involved” in filling it (511). She decides it is her duty as an American to reveal what she has found.

Mr. Ward and his lawyer come to inspect the property. Mr. Ward tells Ivy that after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese people arrived in trucks, carrying items into the Yamamoto house. Ivy reveals that she knows about a secret door. Mr. Ward opens it to reveal the room, filled with three pianos and assorted other musical instruments. Her father scolds Mr. Ward: “’The men you saw going and coming […] They were carrying instruments. There were musicians […] like my daughter’” (521).