Book 1, Tea in the Sahara: Chapters 7-9 Summary

In Chapter 7, Port wakes up in the evening after sleeping all day. Kit is not in the room; so he goes down to the hotel bar, where a young Englishman named Eric Lyle is sitting. His abrasive mother enters and begins to berate him for drinking. Port is amused by the ridiculous dynamic. Later, Port eats dinner with Kit, and the Lyles are seated nearby, bickering. Port and Kit make fun of them until Port asks her what happened that morning with Tunner. She insists that nothing did happen and throws back that she doesn't care what he thinks or does. She half-jokingly insists that Port not invite the Lyles to join them on their travels

After dinner, Kit goes back to the room, and Port wanders the hotel a bit...