Chapter 6 Summary

Basil Valentine and Fuller visit the zoo to watch the animals pacing around and freezing in the cold winter. Valentine asks if Fuller can give him one of his art forgeries that he made for Rectall Brown before quitting and burning the rest. Fuller tells him all the painting are destroyed. Agnes Deigh returns in a late afternoon snow to her apartment to find Arny ("the Swede") asleep under a sunlamp. She wakes him and tells him he has probably got bad burns and they go outside into the snow in search of a doctor. Before leaving however, she begins to draft a letter of apology to a dentist neighbor for filing a false statement with the police that he was abusing a patient. Mr. Pivner scans the scandalous headlines, reads the instructions to a paint-by-numbers kit, then goes to a Christmas Eve...