Part 3, Chapters 28 and 29 Summary

"Adventure without Risk is Disneyland"

Back in Palm Springs, Andy receives a phone call from Claire, calling from New York. She tells how Tobias (whom she went specifically to see) missed several appointments to meet, how they broke up during a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and how, while they were walking back to where Tobias was staying she found a Y-shaped stick (see "Objects/Places - Claire's Stick"). She tells how they went back to Tobias' apartment, how she fell asleep on his sofa, how she realized after she woke up that the stick was going to lead her to the love of her life ... and how she discovered a bottle of Elvissa's nail polish (see Chapter 16). She storms out, followed by Tobias, who shouts at her about how foolish she is to be abandoning life...