Part 4 Chapter 32 Summary

The Collector travels over the plain, leaving Krishnapur. He is struck by the vastness of the plain and the size of the country. He watches the plains go by and notices the villages that seem so small against the landscape. He passes two men using bullocks to draw water from a well. Back in England, everyone returns to their regular lives. The Collector cancels his membership in all of the societies he used to participate in and begins to take walks through the poorer neighborhoods of London. As he ages, he goes out less regularly and begins reading the newspaper from cover to cover. Both the Collector and Fleury put on weight as they age.

Twenty years later, the two men meet by chance one day in Pall Mall in London. They have a strained conversation and share personal news. Fleury...