Conversation that falls chronologically at the end of the story

“You and I are a little like alchemists are we not, Christian, pouring a little of ourselves into one another, to see what distills out, to see what’s left, ultimately friend or foe in crystalline form. “

{the scenes with Dhyey and Christian talking in Dhyey’s office are spread out in the narrative but actually fall together as one conversation  chronologically at the end of the story, where Napoleon, other detectives and officers come to arrest Dhyey.