The Time Traveler's Wife

The narrative regresses in time from the previous chapter, returning to March of 1999. Charisse and Gomez have had a baby girl, their third child. When Clare holds the baby, Henry is reminded of her most recent miscarriage, her third, as the chapter title suggests.

It is now July of 1999. Henry and Clare are lying in bed chatting when Henry suggests they consider adoption. Clare does not agree and insists they keep trying to have a biological child. Henry becomes exasperated, leaves the house, and goes for a drive, something he almost never does. He drives along Lake Michigan before stopping. He time travels, this time to Kimy’s kitchen. Henry and Kimy talk about Kimy’s daughter who died of leukemia as a child before Henry was born.

The narrative shifts to Clare’s perspective as she stands at the location where, according to police, Henry jumped off a pier into the lake. Henry reappears and tells the police a fabricated story, that he was out swimming.

The narrative moves ahead to January of 2000. Henry visits Kendrick and learns that Kendrick has created mice that are capable of time travel.