# Payment Deferred — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Payment Deferred by C. S. Forester.

- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/i.md): Mr. Marble, overwhelmed by financial despair and domestic frustration, contemplates his debts and his photography hobby while yearning for a drink. His nephew Jim Medland visits, and Marble, noticing Medland's wealth, be
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/ii.md): Annie Marble wakes with a headache and reflects on her husband's recent worries and the visit from his nephew Jim, hoping it has resolved their financial troubles. Mr. Marble behaves strangely, obsessively checking the b
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/iii.md): Mr. Marble is consumed by paranoia and guilt after murdering his nephew Jim. He obsesses over buying his house to secure the buried body, but his finances are strained. He reads a book on famous criminals and becomes ter
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/iv.md): Mr. Marble, observed at the bank as increasingly worried and drinking, hatches a speculative scheme to profit from a predicted rise in the French franc. He approaches bookmaker Saunders in a pub, revealing his plan to us
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/v.md): Mr. Marble, consumed by paranoia and guilt after burying a body in his garden, obsessively reads crime and toxicology books, particularly fixating on cyanide. He fears discovery by neighbors or children and is tormented 

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- [Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [The Intrigue of Madame Collins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/x.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [Chapter XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/xvi.md)

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