Jake and Annis are home from Lisbon. Annis buys a dress, they go to a party, they go to Bath, they visit Jake's family. Everyone - Annis, Betts, and certainly I - am just waiting until chapter 9. Jake throws the "man with the head..." quote from Tennyson at Annis, which would make me run away, but Annis doesn't (she does protest,"But I'm a person! Why should I obey blindly just because you want me to?", (p. 159) but doesn't pursue it after Jake changes the subject). They go back to London and Annis goes sightseeing every day to fill in the time, but never mentions it to Jake lest it bore him (though he explains the "intricacies of business" to her in some detail).
They have a dinner party, and afterward Annis is cross with Jake because he assumes she had nothing to do with the preparation. She exclaims that "I can't think why you married me, and I can't think why I married you either!" (p. 162). Jake had been planning to dump her off at her parents' house while he went overseas; when she protests, he maddeningly says, "Remember Tennyson?" and changes the subject. He's horrible, honestly, and even his timely intervention when little Audrey is carried off by a party of tinkers (!) doesn't make him much better.
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