Part 12 Section 36 Summary

There are no new dates in the narrator's journal. She has told Maji that she will be leaving Satipur. Maji laughs, asking if she was planning to leave like Chid—everything about him amused her—and is pleased to hear she was headed for the mountains. Maji approved of the destination although the monsoon season was not a good time for traveling, the roads made impassable by frequent landslides.

There was a cluster of houses above the town of X, on the steep side of one mountain in the Himalayas—barely accessible even during good weather: Olivia had lived in one of those houses. The narrator has stood inside it. She has taken a room in X. She is anxious for the season to change, to begin climbing. She knows there is an ashram further up the mountain...