Chapters 15-16 Summary

As Chapter 15 begins, Dangerfield goes out to get breakfast, complaining about Felicity making noises. He tells Marion he's going to Trinity and asks her for a pound to pay toward the electric bill. She refuses to give him any money. On the way out, Dangerfield takes two decanters from the front room and breaks the gate in his anger. He pawns the landladies' decanters for fifteen shillings and encounters his friend Percy Clocklan, pawning steak that he gets from a woman in a shop in exchange for sex. Percy asks after O'Keefe, whom Dangerfield confirms has gone to France and gone in for men. Percy also invites Dangerfield to a party at their friend Tony Malarkey's in the Catacombs, but Dangerfield declines, citing his financial woes.

In Chapter 16, Dangerfield is heading to the party despite his initial rejection of the invitation...