In this chapter, we are introduced to Dr. Rivers, who has just returned from a trip to the Galapagos Islands. He has come back from the Galapagos with the news that Dr. Bledsoe has died, and he is very upset. He is also very upset because he has not been able to see his wife for a long time. He tells her that she is the only woman he has ever known who has died. He asks her if she has a premonition of death, and she says that she does not. She tells him that she has had an ominous dream about her husband's death. She then asks him if he has a stomach pain. He says that he has had stomach pain before, and