Chapter 25-28 Summary

The group departs the armory and Abrams notes that Kimberly does not join Thorpe in his suite at the Lombardy. Finally, Abrams arrives at the company town home, where he will spend the night. O'Brien calls to inform him that Eleanor Wingate has perished in a fire that consumed Brompton Hall. He retires to the study for a drink, where Joan Grenville propositions him. He hears someone in his room and races upstairs to find Claudia in his bed. She suggests that they make love on the roof of the building, and Abrams agrees, slipping his pistol into one of the pillowcases he carries up. As soon as he gets onto the roof, two men dressed as burglars belay onto the roof, pour whisky down Abrams' throat and throw him off the roof. Abrams fends them off and spends the evening...