Dagny voluntarily works as Galt's cook and housemaid in the valley. The strikers don't always stay in the valley; they often go to the outside world in order to further their cause. But it's now June, and ever since the valley was established 12 years earlier, the strikers have spent this month at the valley to rest and enjoy time with friends. For the past 12 years, Galt has eaten breakfast on June 1st with his two closest friends: Ragnar Danneskjöld and Francisco d'Anconia. Francisco arrives late this year after desperately seeking the wreckage of Dagny's plane in the mountains. He is overjoyed to find her alive.
Francisco accepts that he has lost Dagny, believing that she now loves Hank Rearden. But Dagny realizes that John Galt is the man that she has looked for all her life. However, she knows that because of his strike, she and Galt stand on opposite sides, and she may never have him. Galt also expresses the depth of his feelings for Dagny, saying that when he first saw her he knew that the abandonment of his motor was not the hardest price he would pay for his strike. He loves her, but he can't touch her because she still works within the looters' system.
