Chapters 9 and 10 Summary

Two drunken men stumble down the sidewalk. Gunther, being the more intoxicated of the two, leans on Kurt. They are leaving a party. The two men encounter their comrade Karl, from the same party, slumped down beside the sidewalk. Karl asks that they call him a cab, and they oblige. Unfortunately, in their drunkenness, they put Gunther in the cab instead of Karl. The remaining two men continue down the sidewalk, where they mistake Luzhin's unconscious form for their friend Pulvermacher

The men search Luzhin for identification and find the card with his fiancée's address written on it. Kurt and Karl hail a cab and load Luzhin into the vehicle, piling in beside him. The two men get out at the home of Luzhin's fiancée and, as people emerge from the house, they do their drunken best to explain...