Hoping to ensure that they travel and perform together, Jackie works double-time to keep up, and eventually overtakes Hilary, winning local and national prizes. From her point of view, Jackie is fast becoming a schizzy superstar, painfully selfish. They retire to the countryside where they raise children and farm creatures, work hard and thoroughly enjoy each other. Worse, Hilary, after understandable protest from her husband, agrees to Jackie's plea to let her sleep with her husband, believing that poor dear Jackie only needs to know she's loved. This completely uncomfortable arrangement continues for some months.
Resentment develops on all sides.
Finally, Jackie leaves, and it's time for Part Three. Fittingly, much of her delirium is focused through her instrument. The imagery is both glorious and gruesome. She speaks to it, it sings through her. At one point, they lie side by side on the floor of a Moscow hotel room, and she apologizes for leaving it outside in the snow during one of her frequent attacks of peevishness.