In this chapter, the doctor explains that the alveolar pulmonectomy will not be a major operation, since the patient's immune system will accept the transplanted alveoli. The doctor tells the patient that the outside world will be the future a hundred years hence. The patient is reminded of the road that they have been led to, and the doctor tells him to stay in his arms for a while. He says that he does not like the idea of the patient having sides of himself that the doctor does not show him. He feels that the patient is jealous of the doctor because he could never have done anything to please the patient. The narrator says that the future is the future that he is spending with the patient