Chapters 7 through 11 Summary

Byron and Natalie are headed to Warsaw, Natalie to see Leslie Slote and Byron to watch over Natalie and—he hopes—to have some time with her. When they hear that Hitler and Stalin have allied their respective countries of Germany and Russia, Byron expects them to turn back. Natalie insists that she wants to see Slote, that things are never as dangerous as they are made out to be, and even though Slote tells her during a telephone conversation that she should not come, she insists and Byron acquiesces.

Upon arrival, they find the airports jammed with people to the point that they cannot even find food. They settle for warm beer though Slote, when he arrives about an hour later, says hotel accommodations are no problem since visitors have all fled. They have dinner together that night...