And her intention, ultimately, was to capture Halliday, to have complete power over him.
In the morning they all stalked and lounged about again.

But Gerald could feel a strange hostility to himself, in the air.

It roused his obstinacy, and he stood up against it.

He hung on for two more days.
The result was a nasty and insane scene with Halliday on the fourth evening.

Halliday turned with absurd animosity upon Gerald, in the cafe.