Chapter 22 Summary

Pieter goes to work and later returns home for lunch, but does not eat in the garden as per usual; instead, he takes his meal in the house. He does not eat though, and instead drinks coffee and smokes cigarettes, inhaling the smoke, which he does not usually do. In the study the note is again pulled from the book in which it is hidden, and in the corner of the room, away from the windows he prays and vows again. Then he places the note back into the book and the book back on the shelf and leaves the house.

The afternoon is spent in his office, his fear gnawing at him until it is time to leave and go to the rugby. At the rugby, he sees his Tante Sophie and his sister Martha (who comes to watch Dominee Vos play...