Chapter 157 Summary

Christopher begins this chapter with a discourse on what happens at school during a six-day interval until he can get back to the letters from his mother when Father isn’t at home. At school, things are pretty much as usual. One of his classmates goes to the bathroom all over the floor in the students’ toilet. Christopher refuses to go in the toilet because there is poo on the floor, so he wets himself. Siobhan gets him a dry pair of pants, kept on hand for just such an occasion, and arranges for him to use the staff toilet for the next three days.

After the six-day interval, Christopher goes home on a day when his father has been called to an emergency repair and will be out of the house for several hours. Christopher goes into Father’s room and removes...