Meanwhile, the two Alberts are playing classical music and reading decadent literature.
In an analepsis, the reader gets an account of Uncle Albert when he was working as a throat doctor in Allegheny.
However, after graduation, she eloped to Chicago, but eventually came back and was fairly successful until she came down with a throat disease, which proved fatal.
Later, Margaret comes to the birthday party and Albert tells her about the last time he saw their former music teacher, Rafael Joseffy, noting that he was sick.
Finally, they toast to Lenore, the singer Uncle Albert had brought to success in New York.