In that way, they might gain more information about Jasper's intentions. The two friends then bid each other farewell for the moment. Grewgious suggests that Rosa invite Miss Twinkleton to come and stay with her in London in furnished lodgings for a month, while they see what happens. Accordingly, they rent rooms from a Mrs. Billickin, who becomes a comic adversary of Miss Twinkleton. And so time passes.
Jasper travels to London.
She prepares a pipe for him, which he smokes. He asks her if it is as potent as usual, since it doesn't seem to taste the same and seems to act more slowly. She replies that it just seems that way because he's more used to the drug. As he is becoming more dreamy, she engages him in conversation. No, always the same way.