Eruption, Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 Summary

Lucia takes a last look around the elegant hotel room where she and Julian have spent the last several nights of their honeymoon. Soon, the carriage will be here to take her and her new husband to the ship bound for Guatemala. Lucia is pleased that her professor husband can provide such luxurious accommodations, and she knows that her family will recognize the couple's good fortune by the expensive stationery on which Lucia has posted a letter back home.

Julian reenters the room to tell Lucia it is time to go and both of them stand to look out at the ocean one last time, Lucia thinking that her life is just beginning, and Julian thinking just the opposite. Julian does not touch his wife and imagines that there is already a glass wall between them but he vows...