Editing Under the Volcano (section)

===Chapter 2===
Chapter 2 finds the Consul sitting at the bar of the Bella Vista hotel in Quauhnahuac at 7:00am on 2 November 1938, drinking whisky the morning after the Red Cross ball, when Yvonne enters. The Consul has not been home yet and isn't wearing any socks (as is explained later, his alcoholism is so advanced he cannot put them on). Yvonne has returned to try and save their marriage, but the Consul appears stuck in the past and begins to talk about his visit to [[Oaxaca]], where he went on a drinking binge after Yvonne left. In interior monologue Yvonne wonders if the Consul will be able to return from "this stupid darkness".<ref>''Under the Volcano'' 52.</ref> The chapter had opened with an exclamation about a child's corpse being transported by train; the Consul explains that in such cases in Mexico the dead child always needs to be accompanied by an adult, leading to a reference to [[William Blaxton|William Blackstone]], "the man who went to live among the Indians",<ref>''Under the Volcano'' 53.</ref> a reference the Consul will repeat later on in the day.

Yvonne and the Consul leave the hotel and walk through town, along the [[Palace of Cortés, Cuernavaca]]; they stop at a printer's shop window, their attention drawn by a photograph of a boulder split in two by the elements, an image Yvonne immediately recognises as emblematic of her marriage. On the way to their house in the ''Calle Nicaragua'' they stop at Jacques Laruelle's "bizarre" house, with the inscription ''No se puede vivir sin amar'' ("one cannot live without loving") on the wall, and Popocatépetl and Ixtaccihuatl come into view. The Consul tells Yvonne that Hugh is staying with him as well and is expected back from a trip this very day. As they enter the garden of their house a [[pariah dog]] follows them in.