If you need the from that page, I can reproduce it for you, but I’d need to confirm your exact edition (publisher, year) because pagination varies between US hardcover, paperback, and UK editions.

He hadn’t opened it in three days. He tried to tell himself it was caution, or laziness, but the tightness in his chest told him otherwise. It was fear. Fear that the thing inside had changed, or worse, that it hadn’t, and that he was simply going insane slowly, enclosed in this bubble of dust and antiseptic smell.