Aziz is angry at the presumptuousness of the call, and angry about the colonialist net England has thrown over India. Nevertheless he rides to Callendar's house, but his tire goes flat and he is forced to take a tonga. When he reaches the house, Callendar is out, and has not left a message; and two English ladies take his tonga, stranding him. Aziz leaves a message, then walks back into the town. He goes to a mosque near the all-white Chandrapore Club, and meets an old English lady, Mrs. Moore. He chastises her fo

After having observed Ronny in his tropical environment, Adela has decided not to marry him, and tells him so at the polo match. He is hurt, but still acts kindly to her, and Adela is touched by his understanding. They go for a walk in the evening, and then for a car ride with the Nawab Bahadur. Sitting together in the back seat, they receive an unexpected thrill when their hands touch. The car hits an animal and crashes without much harm. Excited by the accident, and perplexed by the frenzied distress of the Nawab Bahadur, Adela and Ronny look for the animal, but do not find it; they decide it must have been a hyena. They intercept Miss Derek as she drives back to the town, and she gives them a ride. As they reach home, Adela tells Ronny that she wishes to take back what she said to him earlier; just like that, they are engaged to be married.

The local palace vibrates with chanting and the beating of drums. Aziz goes to the guest house and reads Fielding's letters: one from Ronny to Fielding, the other from Adela to Stella. Aziz thinks about how the English are closing ranks against the Indians. He encounters Ralph Moore, Stella's brother, who received a bee sting in the temple. At first Aziz is cruel to Ralph, but when the night-chanting begins at the palace, he is moved, and is kind to the young man. He thinks that he is unwise to make another British friend--it will only lead to another downfall--but he offers to take Ralph out on the water nonetheless. They row near the festival procession, and just at the moment when the chanting reaches its climax, a great wave sends them crashing into the boat holding Fielding and Stella. The four tumble into the water.

Mrs. Moore is able to gain passage in the cabin of Lady Mellanby, and so sails for England before the trial of Aziz and ahead of the worst hot weather. As she travels she obsesses over the echo, but becomes even more upset when the sights she sees from the ship--a fortress called Asmirgah, the bustle and chaos of Delhi--force her to realize that the echo in the caves does not signify the meaning of India as a whole: India is endlessly complex and contradictory, and resists being made into a symbol.

At last McBryde questions Adela. As she speaks on the stand, she seems to re-enter the scene. When McBryde asks her whether Aziz was the man who attacked her, she realizes that he was not. She says so. She says she made a mistake when she accused him. The crowd erupts into hysteria; the English yell that Adela's ill health is causing her to hallucinate, and the Indians demand that she withdraw all her charges against Aziz. Thinking clearly at last, she withdraws the charges, and McBryde is forced to comply. Aziz is free; he faints in Hamidullah's arms.

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