Chapter 33 Summary

By ten o'clock the next morning the housekeeping staff at the Inn began knocking on Quoyle's door. He was awake but very ill, hunched over the toilet. He pulled himself together, got a cab to Nutbeem's, picked up his car and went to Beety and Dennis's house. Beety was disapproving, and didn't think he was the partying type. She told him Dennis was out with Nutbeem to help him fix his boat. All the kids had colds so Quoyle left them with Beety.

He went out to the green house to pick up some items while the road was clear. While there he thought about how wrong the house was to him. It was special to the aunt but meant nothing to him. Upstairs he saw that sections of knotted rope had been laid at the threshold of each room. He became very...