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Both chapters deal with Henry alone and his continuing flight. Chapter 31 tells how he gets away: floating down the river, crossing the Venetian plain, hopping a train. Chapter 32 shows what he thinks about while he gets away.
In the latter chapter, you see that his mind is made up--\"no more obligation,\" he thinks. The Italians are not acting rationally and fairly; therefore, he\'s through. It\'s not his show anymore. After a fleeting thought or two about Rinaldi and the priest, he turns his mind to Catherine. That\'s what he\'s made for, he thinks, to eat and drink and sleep with her.
As Book III ends, a transformed Frederic Henry is planning where he and Catherine can go. There are many places, he concludes, cryptically enough to make you want to read on.
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