At a family dinner, relatives pressure Cynthia to entertain. Reluctantly she agrees and plays a piece whose printed score is incomplete. She completes and performs "Embers of the Moon" from memory with the exact phrasing and nuance of famed violinist Chloe. The room reacts—people shout Chloe—and the real Chloe, long retired, warns the performer not to flaunt her music. Cynthia then states, "I am Chloe." At that moment Harley Hensley, representing Highcrest's top family, arrives, and the gathering freezes as he confronts the woman everyone now must identify.