Pretty uch the entire of the chapter is eclipsed by the final line here. It was a very short chapter so there's not very much to talk about. Alex leaves the Billiard room feeling pretty guilty about beating McCain of his £25,000, but he soon runs into Edward Pleasure and they wait for Sabina to find them before they leave, as they all feel a bit awkward.
They have a conversation which is very probably foreshadowing for some future event: it's about some homework Alex is doing about GM (genetically modified) crops. They're saying that the companies who control this modification process or whatever it is have the ability to have a huge amount of power and money by forcing farmers to pay them for competitive seeds, and also by modifying them so they don't reproduce and therefore farmers have no option but to buy the seeds from these companies. Edward is a journalist and believes he could write something about this, and just as he says this Alex sees McCain close to them. He must have heard what they were saying and looks very worried. What are the chances he's A) behind one of these companies, B) about to get into one of these companies or C) masterminding an evil plan that could seriously be damaged by Edward writing about them.
McCain is not being set up as a good guy here, especially when the three leave and they all agree that something had given them the creeps about that party and they had left feeling awkward and very uncomfortable.
But then the worst thing of the novel so far happens (also strengthening my belief that McCain is a bad guy):
"The accident was so sudden, so unexpected, that none of them even realised what was happening until it was almost over"
There has been very thick snow, and Kilmore Castle is on a mountain, so they're driving down these tight hairpin bends and somehow something goes wrong and they're skidding on the ice, swinging around on the icy road, until they slide off and hang over the edge, teetering for a second before the inevitable:
"For half a second the car hung there.
Then it pitched forward and plunged down."
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WHAT?? THIS CANNOT HAPPEN IN CHAPTER FOUR!! IF SABINA OR EDWARD DIE THEN I WILL CRY FOREVER!!!
This has to be Desmond McCain's work.
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