Fielding goes to visit McBryde, the district superintendent of police, who tells him everything he knows. The story: Aziz followed her into the cave and made advances, she hit at him with her field glasses, he pulled at them and the strap broke, and that is how she got away. The glasses were in Aziz's pocket when they searched him. She also said there was an echo that frightened her.
Fielding says that it doesn't make sense that he would have kept the glasses if he had assaulted her, and McBryde begins to understand that Fielding hasn't bought into the herd mentality that has taken over the Anglo community. McBryde also points out that they found a letter in Aziz's pocket from a friend who owns a brothel in Calcutta. Fielding objects.....
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