After their meeting with Aglie, the group heads over to Pilade's where they expect to meet Lorenza. Belbo is 4 martinis deep when Lorenza comes in and asks everyone to join her at an art gallery party of her friend, Riccardo. Riccardo is a rival of Belbo's for Lorenza so he is wary about going to the party, but everyone eventually ends up going. At the party, Lorenza and Belbo get drunk and Belbo confronts her about Agile. Lorenza claims that Agile believes she is really Sophia, a character in Gnostic mythology. She begins to dance with Riccardo which angers Belbo, who eventually storms out before Lorenza declares that she is beyond good and evil and embraces him at the door.
Days after the party, Casaubon is wandering around in a German.....
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