Carter describes Neville as constantly comparing his own experience with Paul's from the platform, doing everything but saying 'I am Paul'. [Place: Neville's lecture platform (venue unspecified)]

Neville recounted that a friend of his who had long ago moved from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles returned there in 1966 and visited old friends, including a woman named Betty, whose husband Matthew was suffering from a progressive illness leading toward total deafness. While there in person, the friend taught Betty the principle of revising the past to change its outcome, though Betty found it hard to believe her husband's condition could be undone this way.

Neville reads aloud a letter from a correspondent describing a dream in which she found herself in a vast house that became a church, filled with pews of people she recognized as deceased friends of her late father. Among them, seated in the front row, was her Aunt Margaret, who she recalls had suffered a stroke at eighty years old two years earlier during the correspondent's visit to Pittsburgh, and whose fate since then she did not know. In the vision Aunt Margaret responds aloud when the correspondent teaches from Scripture about David, prompting Neville to treat the vision's outbreak into speech as a sign of God's presence.

He has not seen Neville Mark for four years; the last time, the boy came down and spent three weeks with them in Barbados, long-haired and unusually pretty, and now at eighteen he is six feet tall, does all the cooking, washing, ironing and sewing, makes dresses and is studying design to inherit his father's fashion business.

His friend Benny, present in the room that night, told him of a black actor, David Moses, who was about to quit the theatre until he read Neville's book Out of This World; Neville autographed a book for him with Blake's line about the fool persisting in his folly, and within weeks the man got the Greyhound commercial and then pictures, TV spots, a Diahann Carroll appearance and a Danny Thomas pilot.