- Toohey has Keating over to tea. Katie is there along with some other intellectuals.
- Katie is just staring into space when Keating arrives.
- Toohey asks Keating some questions about Roark.
- Keating also banters with a bunch of artistic types who act really cynical. Hmm. Maybe they're cynical because Keating "The Worst Person In The World" Keating is there.
- One, an author named Lois Cook, declares that she wants an ugly house since beautiful houses are boring.
- She and Toohey say Keating should design it.
- Keating ends up doing it and he falls in deeper with Toohey's social circle.