The narrator tells us that he's on his way to pick up Susan for work. He asks her if she's her sister, and she says that she isn't, but that she'll tell him more later. He tells her that he thinks there's some strange thing going on with her, and he suggests that she send someone to England to find out what's going on. Susan says that's fine, but she doesn't want to waste time, so she tells him to go ahead and leave. He's about to leave when she asks him where he got his birth certificate. He says that it's in her study drawer, but he'll have it for her later. She asks him why he stopped reading this book, and when he says that the more he tries to rise up into the sky, the more "earthward" and "downward" he gets. He goes on to say that he was in an orphanage when he was a kid, and that a boy was reading the book with him. The narrator says that he went up to the boy and asked him if it was his sister.