Chapter 3 - Belbury and St. Anne's on the Hill Chapter 4 - The Liquidation of Anachronisms

 Chapter 3

Part 1 - Mark meets the deputy director Mr. Whithers. He attempts to find out what his assigned task is or if he even has a job with N.I.C.E. Mark does not get any clear answer.

Part 2 - Mark has dinner in the common room at N.I.C.E. He feels adrift and alone. He meets Bill Hingest, another fellow of Bracton College, Steele, and Professor Filostrato. He still has no idea of his role there.

Part 3 - Jane meets Miss Ironwood. She is told her strange dreams are true visions and that this faculty was inherited. She is asked to join their side in the coming conflict and rejects this.

Part 4 - Mark talks with "the Fairy" Hardcastle and Bill Hingest. He learns about the theory of "scientific policing."

Part 5 - Jane leaves St. Anne's, determined to stay out of this whole mess. Upon arriving home, she gets a panicked call from Mrs. Dimble.

Chapter 4

Part 1 - Mrs. Dimble arrives at the Studdock home. The town is being turned upside down by N.I.C.E.

Part 2 - Jane has a dream about an old man being flagged down on the road and beaten to death.

Part 3 - Mark talks with a revolutionary parson named Straik.

Part 4 - At a N.I.C.E. committee meeting, Hingest's murder is announced.

Part 5 - Mrs. Dimble leaves the Studdocks' for St. Anne's. Jane learns of Hingest's murder and realizes that, despite her earlier decision, she is not out of this whole business after all.

Part 6 - Mark is recruited to write propaganda arguing for the destruction of the village of Cure Hardy. He visits the village and finds, despite himself, he quite likes it. He then returns home and gives his wife an almost entirely false account of the past few days, casting N.I.C.E. in a much better light than he really experienced it.

Part 7 - At a meeting of Bracton College, Feverstone passes along that Mark will not be returning. He and Curry start planning Mark's replacement. (Mark had, himself, made no such decision.) The N.I.C.E. construction nearby continues to grow louder and more obnoxious. The chapter ends with the sounds of violence and gunfire outside the meeting room of the college.

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So we'll see how two chapters a week goes. If this poses a problem for any of you, let me know.