He starts an affair with Mme Walter. He especially enjoys the conquest as he is her first extramarital lover. His relations with his wife become estranged, and at one point he takes a police superintendent to a flat in which his wife is meeting a minister. They catch the two in the act of adultery. In the last two chapters, His ascent to power continues. He makes use Suzanne Walter.Then they assent to the marriage. The last chapter shows he savouring his success at the wedding ceremony at which all those who figured prominently in society' are present.
When he saw his reflection in the glass, he did not even recognize himself; he took himself for some one else, for a man-of-the-world, and was really satisfied with his general appearance. “What is needed the most down there is good soil. Really fertile land costs as much as it does in France and is bought by wealthy Parisians. The real colonists, the poor, are generally cast out into the desert, where nothing grows for lack of water. .” Leaving the subject of colonization, Norbert de Varenne questioned him as to some of the Algerian customs. Georges spoke with animation; excited by the wine and the desire to please, he related anecdotes of the regiment, of Arabian life, and of the war.
