First and last lines for A Loyal Character Dancer

First:

Chief Inspector Chen Cao, of the Shanghai Police Bureau, found himself once again walking through the morning mist toward Bund Park.

Last:

(on having to send Wen through the gate without Liu to America and more importantly, on saying goodbye to Catherine):

Along with a part of himself, he thought, though he might have lost it long ago, perhaps as early as those mornings on the dew-decked green bench in Bund Park.