Chapter 1, Don Giovanni, Section 3 Summary

In this section, readers are introduced to a few of the white hotel's other guests, who the woman says died while they were at the hotel: a corset maker, a priest and a chef. The corsetiere is a friendly woman who seems lonely. The priest is old, kind, and joins the couple for dinner. The chef runs the kitchen at the white hotel.

One night as the woman and man are having sex, they watch as stars, roses, and orange trees fall into the lake. That night, the woman begins to produce milk. First the man drinks from her breast, but later in the dining room the priest joins in, because the milk reminds him of his dying mother. There is so much milk that the chef enters and fills a glass with it, and soon many...