Chapter 14 Summary

Nick is at Kensington Park Gardens with Catherine awaiting election results. He is silently grieving. Polly Tompkins wins the election as a conservative Member of Parliament for Pershore. Although Polly is a homosexual, it is announced that he has gotten married. Catherine wanted her father to lose, but Gerald won, although not by much. Nick looks out to the gardens and reflects on his first time with Leo.

Chapter 14 Analysis

The media is talking about a Tory landslide, and although the Tories win, it is not a landslide like 1983. Nick recalls going to a pub a few months prior, seeing Leo from behind and realizing that he is ill. Nick goes down to the Gents and picks up a stranger.