Chapter 3 Summary

A policeman escorts the thief to his home; never realizing the man is a car thief. The thief's wife immediately assumes the thief has been apprehended for some criminal behavior and is nearly relieved when she is informed that her husband has gone blind. Elsewhere, the girl with dark glasses realizes she has gone blind and begins to scream. The man she has just had sex with quickly dresses and flees the disturbance. The hotel staff wishes to avoid further complications and ejects the girl with dark glasses, still improperly dressed, onto the street where a policeman hails a taxi for her. The taxi takes her to her parents' home.

The doctor, meanwhile, tries to sleep but is unable to due to worrying over his own recent blindness. He does not disturb his wife but stays beside her throughout the night and considers...