Summary

Chapter Three opens with a quote from C. S. Lewis's "Oxford." He says the city will remain a place not made for evil or material gains.

Robin and Lovell board a stagecoach with nine other passengers One asks if Robin is an Oriental, and Lovell only mentions Canton. However, Robin feels uncomfortable when a child asks if he can see through his slitted eyes and is glad when they disembark.

Eventually, they reach Oxford which is actually divided into 22 colleges. Lovell uncomfortably lists off everything Robin needs to know. As Lovell Leaves, Robin feels it was another unfinished conversation.

Robin reaches his lodgings in Number 4, Magpie Lane, and meets Ramy from Calcutta in South Asia. Excited to meet someone to whom he can relate, Robin is terrified that he might mess up a potential friendship. However, the narrator says that Robin...