There were many dull chapters in this book (5, 6 and 8, if memory serves me correctly). I'm not sure why the pacing is so off in this book. Rather a lot (relatively speaking, of course) happens in chapter 9; I'm not sure why some of this wasn't spread over the other chapters.
Sophie meets the mysterious Irena, and neither Sophie nor the reader is surprised to find out that she's the woman who was in the car with Rijk. They meet at a party, and the next day Irena comes over for lunch and to skate with Sophie and Rijk. Rijk drives Irena home, and then calls to say he will be out late.
It's a bit hasty of Sophie to assume he spent all those missing hours with Irena, but also out of line for Rijk to be furious with Sophie when she suggests that interpretation of the night's events. He has done remarkably little to earn Sophie's trust, so his fury at not having it is, well, very Rijk. Irena comes along, explains everything, and suggests that Sophie go find Rijk to apologize. There's some tiresome business about how Sophie has to leave him now, because she has said she loves him (thereby violating the terms of their platonic marriage). Turns out he has been waiting for her to break her word on this point, which - well, you can imagine what I think of that.
New book tomorrow!
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