The narrator's uncle arrives unannounced, an aching molar has to be extracted, and a backlog of work must be caught up with before he can return to see Ishmael. Arriving with a presentiment of trouble, he finds the space being cleaned out for a new tenant. A worker assumes the tenant was evicted when she failed to meet rent. The narrator is surprised by the pronoun and lack of a note for him. He talks to a receptionist, who refuses to divulge anything and denies a gorilla has occupied the space. The narrator calls the dozen Sokolows in the phone book, but none is Rachel. He drives to the address for a Grace and finds a gazebo on the grounds. An officious butler, Partridge, informs him Mrs. Sokolow has died three months earlier,.....
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