- Tense Shift Alert: Although the narrator has been using the present tense to describe the trip so far, she now switches into the past tense. Hmm, we wonder what that's about…
- Even beyond the tense change, things are starting to get a little, well, weird. The narrator says, "I'm not sure when I began to suspect the truth, about myself and about them, what I was and what they were turning into" (9.2). We don't yet have enough context to have any idea of what that means.
- She then switches back into the present long enough to say she can currently hear the others talking and playing cards through a closed door.
- Then she goes back to the past tense, talking about "that day" when Evans came and left again when he was told the group was staying longer. She remembers that she was uneasy about staying the additional time.
- Then she describes finishing lunch, still in past tense: Joe had followed her out afterwards, apparently wanting to talk to her. However, David interrupted, and then he and Joe went off to chop some wood.
- She and Anna then went to weed the garden.
- While they were weeding, the narrator thought about the past. Anna interrupted her thoughts by asking her if she was on the pill. The narrator said no, and Anna said she'd had to stop because of a blood clot.
- This led the narrator into memories of childbirth, which sound far from pleasant.
- David and Joe reappeared with a log they had chopped down. David wanted to take some film of them with their log for Random Samples.
- That night, they had played bridge.
- When they went to bed, the narrator listened to the sounds of Anna and David having sex in the next room.