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When we are taken inside their minds, the technique of the narrated interior monologue passes their thoughts and feelings through the filter of the narrator's scorn and formal precision of language, thus producing an incongruous effect that points up the essentially threadbare quality of thought and feeling which is described: 'His [Verloc's] intention was not to overwhelm his 45 wife with bitter reproaches. Mr Verloc felt no bitterness. ' This chapter is also notable for the relatively large number of direct interventions the narrator himself makes to point up an irony or to emphasise a moral observation.
The chapter provides us also with a kind of buffer between the final image of Winnie in Chapter 9 and the part she will play in the sequel - the narrator makes us wait to see how Winnie will react to Stevie's death. Because we know more than the Assistant Commissioner, we suspect that his certainty that the case may now be neatly concluded is likely to be undermined. Assuredly, the nature of the political motivation behind the bomb outrage may have been revealed, but the reader will soon discover that, even as the Assistant Commissioner congratulates himself on an expedient conclusion to the case and complacently assumes that Verloc safely awaits any decision as to what action will be taken against him, the secret agent is meeting a very different fate at Winnie's hands.
Apparently in response to Winnie's anxiety about her brother, VerIoc suggests that a change of air might do Stevie some good. Why should Stevie not spend a few days with Michaelis at his cottage in the countryside? Winnie agrees. Winnie is now left to spend a good deal of time on her own. On the day of the Greenwich explosion when VerIoc returns home she finds him huddled over the fire, his teeth chattering uncontrollably. Winnie thinks her husband must have caught a cold. VerIoc cannot eat the supper she has prepared.
