Part 4, Chapters 25-29 Summary

Tereza, Tomas and Karenin leave the city limits of Prague to go to a spa they had been to six years earlier. However, all the names of the places they see have been changed from Czech names to Russian names. Tereza feels the arbitrariness of life. Tereza also thinks about how the engineer must have been a spy. Everything in her life seems to be some disguise. Underneath it all is the life that she tried to leave behind when she went to live with Tomas. Tereza thinks that the engineer must have taken pictures of them together to use as blackmail against her.

As they turn to leave the now Russian spa, an old man comes up to Tomas. The old man knows Tomas and asks him for some medical advice. Tereza becomes increasingly paranoid that the engineer...