Chapter 19 Summary

After James and Hugo parted, James just walked the streets of London thinking about all the things Hugo had told him. Mostly he thought about Anna, and how his memories of her had been transformed now. She seemed to exist as a separate being now, not a part of himself and that was particularly painful to him. Of course, he thought about Hugo. The man had been a monolith to him, he tried to picture him in some tiny watch shop in Nottingham and he wondered if they would ever meet again.

His wanderings led him to Hugo's flat where he was shocked to find that birds had all but taken over now and everything was covered in their white droppings. He went through his desk drawers, found a copy of his book and stuck it into his pocket. There were also a...