pp.102-135 Summary

Polly has agreed to spend another day with Zachary. She wakes up just before breakfast arrives at her room, and meets Zachary to drive to the museum. They spend only one hour at the museum before Zachary decrees that it is time to go on a trip to an old monastery called Osias Lukas that is tucked away in the hills. Zachary tells Polly that the monastery is named after a monk who was said to be a healer. Zachary expresses the claim with skepticism, and Polly reflects on her annoyance with this skepticism. She contrasts Zachary's facile rejection of the whimsical or supernatural with Max's willingness to take a chance on the inexplicable. Polly prefers Max's openness to Zachary's dogmatic atheism.

After Zachary and Polly admire the chapel at the monastery, they go outside for a picnic. Zachary tries to...