Chapters 24 and 25 Summary

A few days later Flory meets Elizabeth at the club and asks her if Verrall is gone. She affirms it and he takes her in his arms. She weeps that he will accept her back after such a terrible insult. Flory muses that within a few weeks they will be married. The traveling Father again visits the town on his one-every-six-weeks rotation. Church is held and all of the English attend, as well as the two Eurasians and a few native Christians. Flory sits by Ellis and is able to ignore his constant invectives and rude gestures about the church by thinking of Elizabeth, imagining her as his wife and boon companion. Elizabeth sits across the aisle from Flory and for her part sneaks glimpses at him—he has, for the first time ever, sat with his birthmark exposed to...