The captivity narrative continues, and is revealed as a hijacking of the story by potentially amorous young cousins who thus far have listened to Cherrycoke's tale, but now combine it with passages from The Ghastly Fop, a pulp series. The American Woman and the Chinese Feng-shui master escape the Widows of Christ (and the pages of The Ghastly Fop), and join up with the party of Mason & Dixon, where Mason sees an uncanny resemblance between the woman and his departed wife, Rebekah. A discussion of metempsychosis ensues. Mason then has strange dreams of Rebekah, and decides the American Woman is not so like her after all.