Chapters 15-16 Summary

Obi drives the five hundred miles from Umuofia to Lagos in a daze; just before Ibadan he avoids a head-on collision with one mammy-wagon passing another. The passengers of the one that stops help get him back on the road and remind him how lucky he is. They advise him to his God when he gets home. The rest of the trip is uneventful, and Obi pulls in towards dark. He begins to panic about what to tell Clara. On the way to Clara's, Obi does not mind being delayed by a long, noisy procession of the "Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim". He trivializes the situation to Clara, saying all will be well if they "lie quiet" a while, but Clara removes her ring and threatens to throw it away if Obi will not take it back. She settles...