She receives an anesthetic during the operation, which makes her even more confused, and Clara dreams of Jim. Another nurse leads her to the dentist, and Clara is nervous and asks if the procedure will hurt. Clara feels that her identity is narrowed down only to her tooth, given the extreme attention given to and the pain caused by her tooth.Ĭlara takes a taxi to the oral surgeon, where the receptionist is slightly less friendly. The nurse lets her into the dentist immediately, who refers her to an oral surgeon to have her left molar removed. As she stands on the street corner, Jim comes towards her, then leaves, after handing her pearls.Ĭlara falls asleep at the restaurant where she eats breakfast, but she does eventually make it to the dentist.
As Clara gets on the escalator, she notices Jim following her again, and he continues to talk about his travels. She falls asleep at the New York station again, but someone awakens her before seven o’clock in the morning. Upon arriving at New York, Jim says goodbye to Clara after escorting her off the bus. Jim waits for Clara in the restaurant, and they return to the bus. The bus stops again, jerking her awake, and Clara finds herself at the previous restaurant, following Jim into it before separating to go to the restroom. Back on the bus, the man, Jim, continues to talk to her, though Clara is only dimly aware of him, so groggy is she.
She awakens when a man in a blue suit starts talking to her about his travels to a distant land. She enters the store and sits down, quickly falling asleep again. On the bus, Clara immediately falls asleep and only awakens when the bus halts for a short break. Clara, armed with her pain medication, takes the redeye bus to the city. Clara Spencer’s husband takes her to the bus station so that she can depart for New York, where she will be treated by a proper dentist for her chronic toothache.
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