- Wynand and Dominique return from their cruise.
- Keating angrily asks if he's got the Stoneridge project.
- Dominique says yes and then says he needs to go chat with Wynand.
- Wynand tells Keating he wants to marry Dominique.
- He offers Keating $250,000 as a settlement, and a broken-down Keating accepts after some futile shouting.
- Dominique goes to visit Steven Mallory to find out where Roark is.
- They have tea and visit.
- Turns out Roark is building a department store in Ohio.
- Dominique heads off for Reno, where she is getting her divorce.
- Fun fact: Reno lowered their waiting periods on divorces to six weeks in 1931, making it a super popular destination for people looking to get a quickie divorce.
- Meanwhile Toohey and Alvah Scarrett hear about the news, and both of them flip out...but for different reasons. Scarrett thinks a Wynand and Dominique union is a scandal doomed for failure, and Toohey is scared of those two joining forces against him.
- Dominique makes a pit stop in Ohio and visits with Roark.
- She updates him on the situation.
- He's not happy about it, but he accepts her right to act as she chooses.
- The two sit and talk easily for a while, and then Roark bids her goodbye at the train station and says he'll keep waiting for her.