Confesses

In the second chapter, "And he racked the clouds in lofty disdain...As they flocked in his airy train," Gale starts working at the café Génoise et Thé, where he meets the owner Alain Tremblay, the cook Hortus, and the customers Charlotte Gagnon and Selene Bauman. Charlotte is a doctor who becomes a regular at the café, and Selene is a Chinese-German curator.