Five nights later, Alejandra comes to John Grady's room to talk. They start to take night rides together, he on the stallion, she on her black Arab. One night, he leaves her, takes his clothes off, and goes swimming in the lake. She joins him. This begins their affair. She goes to his room every night for nine nights, and then she returns to Mexico City.
Rocha invites John Grady to play billiards in a room that was formerly the chapel for the hacienda. Rocha explains some of his views on the Revolution, the Maderos, and, thus, the great aunt's ideas. Later, John Grady imagines Alejandra in his room repeating the words he'd first said to her, "Tell me what to do. I'll do anything you say." But she is gone. Next, he is invited to Antonio's brother's house for dinner on Sunday. When he tells Antonio he intends to reveal to Alejandra his heart when she returns, he discovers that she has already returned.
He continues to work with the mares, and, two days later, he and Rawlins are in the mountains again. One night, three greyhounds come into their camp, but then they vanish and there are no other sounds.
After their return to the ranch, they are arrested in the middle of the night and taken on their horses to the north.
