pages 88-130 Summary

Peter continues his stroll in Regent's Park, thinking about Clarissa and how cold she seemed. Clarissa was in love with him, this he knew.

"But women, he thought, shitting his pocket-knife, don't know what passion is. They don't know the meaning of it to men" (pg. 89.)

Peter and Rezia both spot an old woman with a deformed hand asking for coppers. Both have seen the woman before and pity her.

Rezia thinks about the appointment she and Septimus have with Sir William Bradshaw. Rezia believes that the man will be able to cure Septimus at once. Rezia fetches Septimus and they walk off for the appointment. Along the way Septimus thinks about the message he carries.

"So they crossed, Mr. and Mrs. Septimus Warren Smith, and was there, after all, anything to draw attention to them, anything to make a passer-by...