Beatty is very pleased about Montag's shock and dismay at this turn of events, which lead him on his last alarm to his own house. Montag watches Mildred run from their home into a waiting cab with a suitcase in her hand. She will not look at him or acknowledge that he is even there. She speeds off into the night, in the cab never turning back. It is then that he realizes that it was his wife who called the complaint in.
A pile of books lay on the floor, he surmises that Mildred was watching him when he hid them in the bushes and took them back into the house before reporting him. Beatty is not content to simply torch the house, he wants Montag to do it, without kerosene.....
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