Chapter 9 Summary

Bobby dreams about corridors and caverns and of Amrita and Victoria being locked in a wholesale furniture warehouse in which he had worked during college. When the phone rings at 8:05 AM, Amrita answers it. She says there is a one-day delay in picking up the manuscript and they are invited to tea at Chatterjee's. He next awakes at 10:28, as room service breakfast is delivered. Amrita feigns treating him like a sahib. She and Kamakhya have already gone shopping and much material will be delivered later.

Bobby shares with Amrita the gist of his meeting with the Mysterious Stranger and all of his revelations, omitting certain parts. Amrita seems somehow distracted and disturbed. Bobby claims not to have been frightened, spending the night in Calcutta. They both wish that she had been there to translate, at least the cultural elements. Despite the fantastic elements...