On the day, walking to their house, the narrator encounters Sylvie and Bruno again.

Ducking into a tearoom to escape the rain, the narrator encounters the girl again, this time accompanied by her little brother and their governess.

There is a moment late in the novel when the narrator, now an adult, briefly encounters the much-older Rick.

These compositions feature voyages through a hell where the narrators encounter lovers tormented for eternity for their intemperate passion.

In "Rainwalkers," the narrator encounters a woman carrying a fire extinguisher in the rain.

When the novel's narrator first encounters her, he claims to be "oblivious of the fact that I had just met my sweetest, most dangerous and mortal enemy."

The narrator also encounters a left-wing trade unionist called 'Ron Todd' in a jazz club.

Nigg turns out to be the black man who the narrator first encountered at the beginning of the story.

In this scene, the narrator encounters Rick, who has ventured beyond the resort to explore the island.

A few days later, the narrator encounters the belligerent student at the Metropolitan Museum.