Chapter 32, Our Own Time Summary

Hilde imagines she is at the Major's cabin in the story. She reads that Alberto is planning to escape but didn't her father also knows this and actually typed those words. It's another case of a dream within a dream. Hilde sleeps and dreams that Sophie sees her, but Hilde can't see or hear Sophie. Then Hilde's father comes home. At this point Hilde continues her reading. Sophie is going home from the cabin. She tries to draw the Major's attention by skipping around, singing and even climbing a tree. Sophie can't get down, but she is saved by a magic, talking goose, from a story about a boy, Nils Holgersson. Sophie gets home before her mom returns. Sophie and her mom begin the last preparations for the Philosophical Garden party. After mom leaves, Alberto calls and...