After Freda and Florence’s fight, Florence disappears. Freda hasn’t seen or heard from her. Mrs. Darling, the girls’ landlady, tells Freda that she saw Florence get into a car and drive off. Shortly after, Mrs. Darling evicts Freda from her room on Henrietta Street. Freda is now unhoused.

Nellie meets with the head of the Frazzini gang. The Frazzini gang has taken revenge for Aldo’s death by capturing a member of the Pierrot gang (the rival gang who shot Aldo). Before killing the Pierrot gang member, the Frazzini gang tortures him; they thus learn that Maddox instigated the gang fight at the Amethyst. The Frazzini gang shares this information with Nellie.

Niven confronts Landor about Landor’s following Gwendolen. Niven asks if Landor is working for Azzopardi. Landor reveals that he’s working for Nellie. Niven realizes “that Gwendolen must be working for one of Nellie’s enemies. Azzopardi or Maddox. She could be in danger from either of them, but the greatest threat to her safety must surely come from his mother” (294). That night, Niven is awoken by Nellie in the middle of the night, telling him to get up—there’s an emergency.