Molly, glancing at the envelope, puts the letter under the pillow. The card is evidently from Milly, acknowledging receipt of a parcel. Bloom returns to the kitchen to boil the tea and cook the kidney. The tea is made. His own cup, a birthday gift from Milly, brings back memories of her girlhood.
Bloom takes the breakfast tray into the bedroom.
As Molly shifts, the bed brasses jingle again, appropriately accompanying the sensuous images of her large soft hubs and her body-warmth. Boylan, she says. He s bringing the pro gramme. Molly, professionally known as Marion Tweedy, is a concert singer, and Boylan is to act as her impresario on a coming tour. She is to sing La ci darem , the duet from Don Giovanni, with J. C. Doyle, and Love s Old Sweet Song .