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Heart and Science guide

Wilkie Collins, 1883 · Begin reading

Summary

Ovid Vere, a young doctor exhausted by overwork, falls in love with Carmina Graywell, his mother’s orphaned niece and ward. Carmina returns his love, but their engagement threatens Mrs. Gallilee’s financial interests: Carmina has inherited £130,000, which will pass to Mrs. Gallilee and her daughters if she dies unmarried or without children. Deeply in debt, Mrs. Gallilee conceals her hostility. Carmina persuades Ovid to travel to Canada for his health, trusting his mother’s apparent acceptance of their marriage.

With Ovid away, Mrs. Gallilee tries to divide the lovers. She attempts to use music lessons with Mr. Le Frank to provoke jealousy, but Carmina dislikes him and he becomes her enemy. Miss Minerva, the children’s governess, also loves Ovid. Initially jealous of Carmina, she is moved by Carmina’s kindness and becomes her protector. She arranges rooms for Teresa, Carmina’s devoted former nurse, and urges them to escape to Canada. Fearing her own jealousy, Miss Minerva leaves before the escape can happen.

Doctor Benjulia, a researcher who experiments on living animals, supplies information that Mrs. Gallilee takes as proof that Carmina’s mother was unfaithful. The family lawyer, Mr. Mool, investigates and obtains a confession disproving the slander. Meanwhile, Le Frank steals Carmina’s letter explaining to Ovid why she must leave his mother’s care. Mrs. Gallilee confronts Carmina with an open letter, precipitating a crisis just as Teresa arrives. Carmina becomes dangerously ill. Mr. Gallilee finally defies his wife, and Benjulia takes Carmina to Teresa’s lodgings.

Mrs. Gallilee uses lawyers to demand control of Carmina and restrict Teresa’s care. Le Frank lodges in the same house to spy on Teresa, suspecting her of preparing poison. Teresa catches him intruding and crushes his fingers in a cupboard door. Mool later defends her against his complaint. Carmina deteriorates, while Benjulia privately treats her illness as material for research.

Zo, Ovid’s young half-sister, secretly writes asking him to return. Mr. Gallilee takes his daughters to Lady Northlake in Scotland. Their departure, followed by news of Ovid’s return and her maid’s resignation, overwhelms Mrs. Gallilee; she loses her reason and is eventually placed in a private asylum. Miss Minerva meets Ovid on his journey home.

Ovid finds Carmina expecting death. She forgives his mother and tells him her burial wishes. After despairing, he resolves to save her, studies a medical manuscript overnight, and takes charge of her treatment. Its unusual prescriptions succeed, and within ten days he believes her life safe. He prepares to publish the discoveries of the unnamed physician who died in Montreal, acknowledging that they saved Carmina. Benjulia subsequently reads a review of a new medical book. Soon afterward, he dies in his burning laboratory; the verdict is misadventure, although evidence suggests deliberate burning and suicide.

Ovid marries Carmina, whose health remains impaired. Miss Minerva initially stays away because she still loves Ovid, but later rejoins their lives; their daughter is named Frances after her. Mr. Gallilee’s attempts to reach his wife fail. Mrs. Gallilee ends by hosting a successful scientific gathering and declaring herself happy.

The ending

Ovid saves Carmina and marries her, though her health remains impaired. Miss Minerva eventually returns to their lives, and they name their daughter Frances after her. Benjulia dies in his burning laboratory, possibly by suicide, though the jury rules his death accidental. Mr. Gallilee cannot reach his estranged wife; Mrs. Gallilee hosts a successful scientific gathering and declares herself happy.

Characters

Also appearing

  • The music-seller
  • Null
  • Matilda
  • Herod
  • Morphew
  • Mrs. Morphew
  • Father Patrizio
  • Richardson
  • Mrs. Gallilee’s page
  • The nearest doctor
  • Mr. Gregg
  • Mrs. Gregg
  • Mr. Barrable

Chapter by chapter

Chapter 1

Ovid Vere stops medical work because exhaustion has forced him to take several months of rest. He tries to finish a medical manuscript, but reading it makes his head swim. He sets out for the College of Surgeons to verify a fact before his planned voyage the next day.

Chapter 2

Ovid Vere meets Sir Richard, who urges him to rest and gives him information about a lace sale for his mother. Ovid wanders into a quiet square, where he sees a young woman whose glance immediately captivates him. He follows her and her elderly companion into a concert hall, abandoning his intended visit to the College of Surgeons.

Chapter 3

Carmina and Teresa are in London, where Carmina is shaken by seeing a dog killed in the street. Carmina gives up a museum visit and buys tickets for a concert featuring Italian music. Refusing a cab because she fears another accident, she walks with Teresa through the square where they encounter Ovid.

Chapter 4

Ovid Vere follows Carmina into the concert and chooses seats from which he can watch her. When his mother, Mrs. Gallilee, arrives, he moves away to prevent her from noticing his interest in Carmina. Mrs. Gallilee unknowingly sits beside her niece, and Carmina faints onto Teresa's shoulder.

Chapter 5

Miss Minerva tells Mr. Le Frank that the young woman who fainted at his concert is Mrs. Gallilee's niece. Le Frank decides to write to Ovid Vere, thank him for attending, and send tickets for another concert. After the visitors leave, Miss Minerva sets Maria and Zo their lessons and wonders what is happening upstairs.

Chapter 6

Mrs. Gallilee receives Carmina in carefully prepared rooms but cannot explain Carmina's embarrassment or Ovid Vere's unusual conduct. Ovid initially shows little interest in his uncle's will, then agrees to hear it read when reminded that his mother is Carmina's guardian. Mrs. Gallilee recognizes his interest in Carmina, while Miss Minerva secretly overhears their conversation.

Chapter 7

Mr. Mool recalls how Robert Graywell inherited most of his father's fortune and repeatedly paid his sister Mrs. Gallilee's debts. Mrs. Gallilee expects a large legacy, but Robert counted those payments as her share. Mr. Mool feels ashamed because he feared telling her this before the will was read.

Chapter 8

Mr. Mool explains Robert Graywell's will to Mrs. Gallilee and Ovid, including provisions for Carmina's support and Catholic faith. Mrs. Gallilee goes upstairs to tell Carmina about her allowance before Ovid has heard the final clause. Ovid then learns that Carmina's £130,000 fortune will pass to Mrs. Gallilee and her daughters if Carmina dies unmarried or without children.

Chapter 9

Ovid recognizes his love for Carmina and decides to abandon his sea voyage despite his need for rest. Teresa visits him, encourages his hopes of Carmina's love, and is delighted to learn that he will stay. She leaves after warning Ovid that Carmina may have enemies even in his mother's house.

Chapter 10

Ovid announces at breakfast that he has cancelled his journey, and an outing to the Zoological Gardens is arranged. Mrs. Gallilee instructs Miss Minerva to accompany the party and prevent Ovid and Carmina from being alone together. Miss Minerva's angry response convinces Mrs. Gallilee that the governess herself loves Ovid.

Chapter 11

Ovid takes Carmina to see the birds at the Zoological Gardens, where she tells him that she distrusts Miss Minerva. Miss Minerva's love for Ovid keeps her willing to accompany him despite his attention to Carmina. Teresa gets Zo to explain her observations of the couple, and a stranger interrupts to say that the governess prevents Ovid from kissing Carmina.

Chapter 12

Doctor Benjulia joins the party, and Zo treats him with familiarity while Teresa finds him repellent. Miss Minerva tells Carmina that Mr. Gallilee hates Benjulia and that Ovid finds this instinctive dislike troubling. Benjulia walks away with Ovid and agrees to examine a sick monkey, which Miss Minerva suspects has a brain disease.

Chapter 13

Doctor Benjulia questions Ovid about a patient they lost and urges him to recover from overwork in Canada. Ovid learns that Benjulia knew Carmina’s father and mother in Italy, but gets little information from him. Benjulia refuses Ovid’s invitation to meet Carmina and chooses to see the sick monkey instead.

Chapter 14

Maria tries to instruct Teresa about monkeys, but Teresa objects to her manner. Ovid suffers a fainting fit, and Benjulia helps him recover while Carmina watches anxiously. Benjulia warns Carmina that Ovid must go away immediately to avoid serious illness, leaving her distressed at the prospect of separation.

Chapter 15

Teresa returns to Italy after leaving Carmina a farewell letter, and Ovid stays in London despite warnings about his health. Mrs. Gallilee asks Carmina to persuade Ovid to leave, but offends her by accusing her of false modesty about her influence over him. Carmina leaves the room, and Miss Minerva soon follows her.

Chapter 16

Miss Minerva offers Carmina friendship, and Carmina’s trust briefly overcomes her selfish intentions. They discuss possible reasons why Mrs. Gallilee might oppose Carmina’s marriage to Ovid, but Miss Minerva cannot explain her motives. Miss Minerva leaves to help Maria, and Mrs. Gallilee’s maid gives Carmina a note from Ovid.

Chapter 17

Carmina meets Ovid in the Square, where he asks her to tell him that she loves him. Their conversation leads Ovid to agree to go away for his health, while Carmina assures him that Miss Minerva will care for her. Ovid is surprised by Carmina’s trust in the governess, but Mrs. Gallilee calls to them before he can learn more.

Chapter 18

Ovid tells Mrs. Gallilee that he will leave at the end of the week, and she warmly thanks Carmina. Mrs. Gallilee eagerly helps arrange his journey to Canada and treats both Carmina and Miss Minerva with unusual friendliness. After Ovid leaves, Miss Minerva wonders what mischief Mrs. Gallilee intends once her son is away.

Chapter 19

Mrs. Gallilee and Carmina persuade Ovid to visit Doctor Benjulia for information and an introduction for his Canadian journey. Ovid questions Benjulia about animal experiments, and Benjulia evades the question while admitting concern about Ovid developing new ideas. Ovid leaves angry but decides to keep and use Benjulia’s sealed letter of introduction to a doctor in Montreal.

Chapter 20

Ovid tells Mrs. Gallilee that he and Carmina are engaged and asks her to care for Carmina during his absence. Mrs. Gallilee says she has accepted the match, easing Ovid’s fears about her opposition. Ovid leaves for his journey after painful farewells to Carmina, Mr. Gallilee and Zo, while Miss Minerva watches unseen.

Chapter 21

Mrs. Gallilee reviews her debts and considers Ovid’s savings as a possible source of help. She then questions Miss Minerva about Mr. Le Frank’s ability to teach a more advanced music pupil. When Mrs. Gallilee names Carmina as that pupil, Miss Minerva suspects that the conversation concerns Carmina’s marriage to Ovid.

Chapter 22

Mrs. Gallilee shows Miss Minerva Mr. Le Frank’s offer to teach Carmina and asks for her opinion. Miss Minerva warns that Ovid dislikes Mr. Le Frank and might become jealous while ill and far from home. Mrs. Gallilee fails to enlist Miss Minerva in her scheme to separate the lovers and sends for Carmina to proceed herself.

Chapter 23

Carmina seeks comfort from Miss Minerva during Ovid’s absence and expresses her poor opinion of Mr. Le Frank’s looks and playing. Mr. Le Frank appears in a rage after Zo runs away from her lesson, and Miss Minerva concludes that he has overheard Carmina’s remarks. Carmina goes to see Mrs. Gallilee, while Miss Minerva finds Zo confined and believes Carmina has made a lasting enemy of Mr. Le Frank.

Chapter 24

Carmina writes to Teresa that Ovid has arrived safely in Quebec and is beginning to recover his health. She describes Mrs. Gallilee’s hostility after Mr. Le Frank refused to teach her and Mrs. Gallilee’s refusal to let her visit Lady Northlake in Scotland. Carmina remains in London under Mrs. Gallilee’s authority, takes comfort in Ovid’s love and asks Teresa to send flowers from her former garden in Rome.

Chapter 25

Ovid writes to Carmina from Montreal about meeting Mr. Morphew, arranging concert tickets for her, and treating a patient despite his poor health. He reports some improvement but says exertion still exhausts him and plans to travel inland before deciding when to return. He asks about Mrs. Gallilee and Miss Minerva, unaware of Carmina’s troubles at home.

Chapter 26

Carmina writes to Teresa about apologizing to Miss Minerva and refusing to believe that she is wholly cruel. Miss Minerva defies Mrs. Gallilee, who gives her a month’s notice. When Carmina becomes faint on the stairs, Mrs. Gallilee accuses her of listening, while Miss Minerva carries her to her room.

Chapter 27

Carmina tells Teresa that Mrs. Gallilee has apologized and asked her to keep their quarrel from Ovid, while Mr. Gallilee brings Mr. Null to examine her. Miss Minerva’s letter admits her love for Ovid and warns Carmina that her remorse does not make her trustworthy. Carmina feels compassion for Miss Minerva and asks Teresa whether she is wrong to help her.

Chapter 28

Mrs. Gallilee learns that Carmina has received a telegram, while Benjulia asks her to visit with Ovid’s letters. She tries to discover jealousy between Carmina and Miss Minerva by leaving them together, but learns nothing. Carmina silently offers her hand, and Miss Minerva takes it and kisses it.

Chapter 29

Mrs. Gallilee considers using Benjulia to interfere with Ovid and Carmina’s marriage after her earlier schemes have failed. She discovers that she has overdrawn her bank account and learns that Mr. Gallilee can borrow against his investments. With a way to obtain money established, she prepares to visit Benjulia and tells her husband she will need him that evening.

Chapter 30

Benjulia reads Mr. Morphew’s praise of Ovid’s care for a seriously ill patient and suspects that the illness involved the brain. He hopes Mrs. Gallilee’s letters will clarify the case and considers another letter Morphew has sent to his brother Lemuel. Despite resenting Lemuel, who knows his laboratory secret, Benjulia writes demanding to see the letter.

Chapter 31

Lemuel Benjulia visits his brother Nathan with a letter and mocks his experiments on animals. Nathan examines Lemuel for signs of brain disease after hearing his sentimental defence of dogs. The brothers sit down to discuss medical research, each hoping to expose the other.

Chapter 32

Lemuel challenges Nathan Benjulia to explain why the law protects humans from vivisection but permits experiments on dogs. Nathan discovers that Lemuel borrowed his arguments from Morphew's letter, then describes continuing a monkey's suffering despite his own distress. Mrs. Gallilee arrives, and Lemuel helps Nathan compose himself before leaving her to wait.

Chapter 33

Mrs. Gallilee tells Mr. Mool information obtained from Doctor Benjulia that she believes disgraces Carmina's parentage. Mr. Mool explains that Carmina's inheritance remains secure and that Mrs. Gallilee must either remain her guardian or yield the position to Lady Northlake. Alarmed for Carmina, Mr. Mool abandons his plan to resign as the family's lawyer so that he can still help her.

Chapter 34

Carmina tells Miss Minerva that she feels increasingly weak, and Miss Minerva offers to find rooms for Teresa. Mrs. Gallilee receives Carmina coldly, then wins Mr. Le Frank's goodwill by supporting his song. Mrs. Gallilee leaves Mr. Le Frank suspicious of Carmina's attempt to make peace with him.

Chapter 35

Miss Minerva witnesses Mrs. Gallilee's cold treatment of Carmina, who is sent out in the carriage with Marceline. Mrs. Gallilee privately resents Carmina's inheritance, believes her illegitimate, and wishes an accident would remove her. Miss Minerva secures nearby rooms for Teresa, and Carmina sends Teresa a telegram announcing that they are ready.

Chapter 36

Mr. Gallilee takes Carmina to a conjuring performance, while Mr. Le Frank's suspicions of her grow. Miss Minerva urges Carmina to escape with Teresa and join Ovid in Quebec. Mrs. Gallilee interrupts their conversation to give Carmina her medicine, and the expression Miss Minerva sees on her face leaves the governess visibly frightened.

Chapter 37

Doctor Benjulia finishes a successful series of experiments and sets out to telegraph his friend in Canada about Ovid’s Montreal case. His amusement at the cook turns to scientific interest when her terror suggests a possible case for study. After learning that she has relieved herself by crying, Benjulia loses interest and returns to his visitor, Mr. Mool.

Chapter 38

Mr. Mool visits Doctor Benjulia to discuss a statement Mrs. Gallilee has made about him. Later, Carmina visits Mool and learns that her aunt controls her until she turns twenty-one, but that marriage would end this guardianship. Carmina leaves hurriedly without explaining her intentions, and Mool is concerned by her questions.

Chapter 39

Carmina decides to follow Miss Minerva’s plan to escape with Teresa and travel to Quebec to join Ovid. Mr. Mool’s confirmation of Mrs. Gallilee’s authority ends Carmina’s hope of arranging a peaceful move to Teresa’s care. Father Patrizio’s letter urges Carmina to calm Teresa’s anger and supports her marriage, removing Carmina’s remaining doubts about leaving.

Chapter 40

Carmina tells Miss Minerva that she will follow her advice and escape Mrs. Gallilee’s control. While Carmina takes the children for a drive, Miss Minerva leaves the house and leaves Carmina her ring and a farewell note. Carmina understands that Frances still fears her own jealousy over Ovid, but trusts her more deeply despite the separation.

Chapter 41

Carmina questions the servants about Miss Minerva’s departure but finds no address where she can reach her. Mr. Gallilee intercepts a telegram addressed to Carmina that Joseph was taking to Mrs. Gallilee under her orders. Teresa’s message promises her arrival the next evening, and Carmina goes to bed relieved and happy.

Chapter 42

Carmina writes to Frances asking to meet and writes to Ovid explaining why she must leave his mother’s care. The music-master frightens Carmina in the hall, then steals her letter to Ovid after she leaves for her drive. As Carmina returns, her carriage narrowly avoids a speeding cab carrying Mr. Mool’s head clerk with news for Doctor Benjulia.

Chapter 43

Mr. Mool finds Baccani and obtains a confession proving that the slander against Carmina’s mother is false. Mr. Mool sends the evidence to Benjulia and asks him to correct the report he spread. Benjulia agrees and goes to Mrs. Gallilee’s house, where he waits for her return.

Chapter 44

Mr. Le Frank leaves an urgent private letter for Mrs. Gallilee, while Zo brings Benjulia into Carmina’s room. Carmina’s words about love make Benjulia question whether his scientific work has given him all that life could offer. Carmina waits for Teresa and thinks of joining Ovid, while Benjulia falls silent after their discussion of love and God.

Chapter 45

Mrs. Gallilee confronts Carmina with an open letter, and Teresa arrives during the resulting crisis. Carmina becomes seriously ill, Mrs. Gallilee is also incapacitated, and Mr. Gallilee insists that Carmina must leave the house. Benjulia takes Carmina away with Teresa, leaving Mr. Gallilee in tears with Zo.

Chapter 46

Mrs. Gallilee recovers consciousness and demands to know where Carmina has gone. Mr. Gallilee refuses to help her pursue Carmina, and Zo secretly writes to Ovid asking him to return because Carmina is ill. Zo hides her letter when a servant announces Mr. Le Frank, and Mr. Gallilee sends word of his visit to his wife.

Chapter 47

Mrs. Gallilee, weakened and deprived of Mr. Mool’s support, receives Mr. Le Frank while seeking help to regain control of Carmina. She later dictates instructions through Mr. Null to new lawyers, forbidding Teresa to nurse or visit Carmina and demanding Carmina’s return when she can be moved. Mr. Null leaves alarmed and wonders how Teresa will respond.

Chapter 48

Mr. Gallilee visits Carmina’s lodgings, hears that her condition is unchanged, and asks Mr. Mool for advice about his family. They agree to send Maria and Zo to Lady Northlake when she invites them, and Mr. Mool considers whether Carmina’s father’s will offers protection against her guardian. Meanwhile, Marceline posts Zo’s letter to Ovid, and Zo repays her by describing what she witnessed in Carmina’s room.

Chapter 49

Mr. Le Frank complains about his unsuccessful song, and Mrs. Gallilee offers to pay the publisher’s bill. He persuades Mrs. Gallilee that Teresa’s submission may conceal a plan to poison her. Mr. Le Frank proposes taking a room in Carmina’s lodging-house to watch Teresa and search her belongings.

Chapter 50

Carmina recognises Teresa but remains weak, suffers repeated sickness, and cannot fully remember her last conversation with Benjulia. Benjulia approves Mr. Null’s treatment and tells Teresa not to prompt Carmina’s memory. The landlady announces a new lodger and later secretly tastes a white powder Teresa keeps in a cupboard.

Chapter 51

Mr. Le Frank moves into the lodging-house and writes Mrs. Gallilee a report about Teresa’s nighttime fire and suspicious powder. He repeatedly listens outside Carmina’s rooms, still wrongly believing that Carmina is pretending to be ill. When the landlady identifies the new lodger as Mr. Le Frank, Teresa recognises his name.

Chapter 52

Teresa suspects that Mr. Le Frank has moved into the house to spy on her, while Carmina becomes restless and confused during the night. Benjulia detects signs of paralysis and privately treats Carmina’s illness as a subject for his experimental notes. Mr. Null tells Teresa that nobody can say when Carmina can be moved and that Mrs. Gallilee is almost well.

Chapter 53

Teresa despairs of taking Carmina out of England and catches Mr. Le Frank listening outside their door. Mr. Le Frank searches the cupboard, finds the canister empty, and insults Teresa while she listens nearby. Teresa slams the cupboard door on his fingers, then comforts the frightened Carmina while the other lodgers find him unconscious and suggest sending him to hospital.

Chapter 54

Mrs. Gallilee recovers enough to go downstairs, reads Mr. Le Frank’s letter, and decides to dismiss him after privately paying his expenses. She discovers that Mr. Gallilee and their daughters have gone away, suspects that a woman helped prepare their clothes, and sends for lawyers. Mr. Null brings a telegram announcing that Ovid is returning after learning of Carmina’s illness and may reach London in ten days.

Chapter 55

Mrs. Gallilee learns that Ovid is returning and questions Mr. Null about who told him of Carmina’s illness. Already distressed by her husband’s departure with their children, she breaks down when Marceline resigns and admits helping him take the girls’ belongings. Joseph fetches a doctor, who finds the servants restraining Mrs. Gallilee.

Chapter 56

Mr. Null tells Mr. Mool that Mrs. Gallilee has lost her reason, and Mr. Mool telegraphs her husband to return. Miss Minerva visits Carmina and wins Teresa’s sympathy when Carmina speaks of dying despite Ovid’s approaching return. Miss Minerva leaves London to meet Ovid at Queenstown.

Chapter 57

Mr. Gallilee returns from Scotland, but Mrs. Gallilee reacts furiously to seeing him and is moved to a private asylum. Ovid returns to Carmina, and Mr. Gallilee learns that Zo’s letter brought him home. Miss Minerva and Teresa keep Mr. Null from disturbing Ovid and wait anxiously while he remains upstairs with Carmina.

Chapter 58

Carmina rests in Ovid’s arms and tells him that she forgives his mother. Expecting to die, she asks Ovid to bury her in a quiet country churchyard and gives him the lockets containing her parents’ portraits. Carmina falls asleep, and Ovid stays beside her, checking her pulse and breathing as darkness falls.

Chapter 59

Teresa leads the distraught Ovid downstairs, and he goes out walking after finding himself unable to pray. Exercise restores his resolve to save Carmina, and he encounters Benjulia in a country lane. Ovid studies a medical manuscript through the night and prepares to act, then checks upstairs and hears Carmina still speaking faintly.

Chapter 60

Ovid takes charge of Carmina’s treatment, dismisses Mr. Null, and reports to Mr. Gallilee within ten days that her life appears safe. He credits the medical manuscript with saving her and explains how he prepared its unusual prescriptions despite a chemist’s objections. Later, Mr. Mool warns Mr. Gallilee against giving money to Mr. Le Frank and explains how he defended Teresa against Le Frank’s complaint over his injured hand.

Chapter 61

Zo visits the recovering Carmina, whose recollection of small events reassures Ovid about her memory. Ovid prepares to publish the discoveries of the unnamed physician who died in Montreal, acknowledging his debt to him. When Zo mentions Benjulia, Ovid tells Mr. Gallilee to take her away and never let her see Benjulia again.

Chapter 62

Benjulia finds a review of a new medical book among his journals and abruptly leaves the house. His footman later shelters a crippled dog and discovers Benjulia’s laboratory burning. Benjulia dies in the fire, and the jury returns a verdict of death by misadventure despite evidence suggesting suicide and deliberate burning.

Chapter 63

Ovid marries Carmina, whose health remains impaired, while Miss Minerva stays away because of her feelings for Ovid. Miss Minerva later rejoins their lives, and Ovid and Carmina name their daughter Frances after her. Mr. Gallilee’s attempts to reach his wife fail, while Mrs. Gallilee hosts a successful scientific gathering and declares herself happy.

Storylines

  • Ovid seeks to recover his health through several months of rest from professional work.

    • Ovid accepts that a change of air and scene would benefit his health and asks for time to consider travelling.
    • Ovid reaffirms his intention to suspend practice and rest after overwork impairs his medical capacity; Benjulia presses him to travel and treats his concern for the beetle as evidence that rest is urgent.
    • Sleeplessness and exertion culminate in collapse; although Ovid revives, Benjulia predicts serious illness unless he leaves promptly.
    • His pallor renews concern about his health, and he agrees to begin a recuperative journey on Saturday.
    • Ovid begins his journey for recuperation; no improvement in his health is yet established.
    • Ovid reaches Quebec safely and begins recovering after the voyage.
    • Ovid plans further inland travel for recovery before fixing his reunion with Carmina.
    • Ovid reports recovering health and energy and resolves to continue his journey.
    • Frances finds Ovid looking well and strong on his return, indicating improvement in his health.
    • Prairie travel has restored Ovid's robust health and steady nerves.

  • Ovid arranges for a colleague to take charge of his practice and plans to embark tomorrow for the Mediterranean in a friend's yacht.

    • Ovid prepares for his departure by buying his mother farewell lace; the voyage remains prospective.
    • His departure tomorrow remains expected, and he fits a visit to Carmina into the time before leaving.
    • Although his friend still expects them to travel that morning, Ovid abandons the voyage and delivers his cancellation letter, ending the sailing plan.

  • Ovid's impatience with idleness drives him back to medical work despite his need for rest; dizziness accompanies his renewed effort.

    • Ovid undertakes another medical visit and resumes his professional errand despite his prescribed rest.
    • Ovid resumes medical care during his recuperative journey, attending a dying patient over successive visits.

  • Ovid hopes to finish a chapter of his medical writing despite his commitment to rest.

  • Ovid plans to walk to the College to verify a fact with a curator and a specimen, and sets out from his consulting-room.

    • Ovid continues his journey and renews his intention to reach the College after visiting the patient, but further diversions culminate in his entering the concert hall; he has not verified the fact.

  • Sir Richard credits Ovid's medical judgment with saving their patient, while the other doctors attribute the recovery to luck.

  • The discovery of her brother's will and the possible imminent arrival of his daughter unsettle Maria.

    • Maria is shocked to recognize Carmina at the concert, and her niece is brought into her house.
    • Carmina's arrival becomes an embarrassing reality, the will is ready to be read, and Maria recognizes Ovid's interest in her niece.
    • The family history exposes the financial stakes behind Maria's unease about the will: repeated debt payments have strengthened her expectation of a substantial legacy, while Mool has failed to tell her that those payments substitute for it.
    • The reading exposes Maria's resentment and concealed rage over her small legacy; the final inheritance clause also visibly agitates her.

  • The lace seller seeks Sir Richard's help selling her remaining stock so that she can retire.

  • Sir Richard and the other doctors agree to conceal their treatment dispute from Ovid.

  • Ovid seeks to buy his mother a farewell present before his voyage.

  • Ovid follows the children to establish whether the boys will mistreat the girl or take her strawberries.

  • Ovid undertakes to deliver the neglected prescription personally and attend the patient to make amends.

  • Ovid's childhood attachment to his dead cousin persists in sorrowful memories that become a source of calm.

  • Ovid forms a romantic attachment to Carmina on seeing her and follows her and Teresa into a concert hall.

    • Carmina reaches Ovid in the quiet square, connecting her outing with the encounter underlying his attachment; these events establish no reciprocal romantic feeling.
    • Ovid buys another ticket and chooses seats near Carmina, who notices him. He mistakes her turning away for a rebuke, then finds increased contentment nearer her before withdrawing to protect her from his mother's scrutiny.
    • Learning Carmina's identity does not diminish Ovid's concern; he promises another visit and agrees to hear the will after recalling Maria's guardianship.
    • Carmina's sadness pains Ovid, and seeing her makes him abandon his customary reserve and greet her affectionately.
    • Ovid recognizes the strength of his love, seeks opportunities to see Carmina and cancels his departure because of her; Teresa independently infers his attachment.
    • Ovid abandons his journey, recognizes that Carmina reciprocates his interest, and proposes an outing with her.
    • Ovid defends Carmina's intelligence, returns eagerly to her company and gives her attention whose romantic character Zo notices; he moves away with Carmina to prevent an embarrassing comparison.
    • Ovid is anxious to return to Carmina, hears Zo's question about kissing her, and angrily defends her mother's reputation against an apparent insult.
    • Ovid reveals his deliberate pursuit of Carmina. Initial misunderstanding gives way to her recognition of his love and his recognition that she understands.
    • Sympathy with Carmina's distress deepens Ovid's love.
    • Uncertainty about Carmina's response gives way to a proposal, openly mutual affection and her explicit declaration of love.
    • Ovid's attachment is reaffirmed as a settled intention to marry Carmina.
    • Ovid's affectionate letter consoles Carmina, and thoughts of him repeatedly restore her courage during their separation.
    • Their correspondence sustains the attachment; Carmina's love and the physician's tragic marriage deepen Ovid's gratitude and prompt acts undertaken for her sake.
    • Their reunion brings their first kiss and Ovid's renewed assurance of his love.
    • Ovid's romantic attachment culminates in marriage to Carmina.

  • Carmina grieves her approaching separation from Teresa and seeks to comfort her by spending a final day together before joining her aunt.

    • Carmina suffers distress during the night, while Teresa's husband's rapidly failing health makes their approaching separation unavoidable.
    • The anticipated separation occurs; Carmina withdraws in grief, while Teresa promises continued correspondence.
    • The anticipated separation has occurred, leaving Carmina without Teresa's immediate companionship and support.

  • Carmina and Teresa postpone visiting Mrs. Gallilee until tomorrow and plan to conceal their actual arrival date.

    • Carmina's fainting brings her and Teresa into contact with her aunt and takes Carmina to her aunt's house before the planned visit tomorrow.
    • Maria encounters and identifies Carmina at the concert, defeating the planned postponement of their meeting and prompting scrutiny of their conduct.

  • Carmina and Teresa seek an outing together, shifting from music to pictures and Soane's Museum, then returning to music after the dog's death; Carmina purchases tickets for an afternoon concert featuring Italian music.

    • Carmina and Teresa carry out the concert outing; they are seated in the auditorium when Carmina faints.

  • Carmina seeks to feed the hungry stray dog, but its death prevents her from helping it.

  • The dog's death leaves Carmina distressed, disrupts the museum outing and makes her fear that travelling by cab could kill another creature.

    • The nervous shock from witnessing the dog's killing persists into the concert, where Carmina loses consciousness against Teresa's shoulder.

  • Ovid seeks to conceal his romantic interest in Carmina from his mother, fearing her interpretation of it.

    • Ovid's attendance and treatment of Carmina become known to Frances and Le Frank; Le Frank questions his belief that Ovid dislikes music, increasing scrutiny without establishing that his romantic interest is discovered.
    • Ovid's conspicuous concern exposes his attachment, and Maria correctly infers his romantic interest.
    • Although Ovid withholds an explicit admission, Maria understands his romantic motive and he discovers that she knows.

  • Ovid seeks to protect Carmina from his mother's potentially insulting scrutiny by moving away from her.

    • Carmina's medical emergency brings her directly into Maria's attention and household, frustrating Ovid's attempt to shield her by moving away.
    • Maria discovers Carmina's identity, scrutinizes their conduct, and recognizes Ovid's attachment.

  • Ovid seeks to revive Carmina after she faints at the concert.

    • Carmina is conscious, receives information about Ovid, and feels gratitude for his attentions.

  • Frances resents Gallilee's indulgence of the girls' appetites and anticipates being blamed for their diet.

  • Gallilee proposes concealing the girls' treats from their mother.

  • Le Frank seeks to fulfill his commitment to sell tickets for his friend's concert, securing Gallilee's payment and considering sending Ovid two tickets with a letter of thanks.

  • Frances seeks to discover what Ovid and the others are doing upstairs.

    • Frances overhears Maria and Ovid's conversation from the upper landing.

  • Maria seeks to separate Ovid from Carmina, while Ovid's fervent concern resists her intervention and exposes his attachment.

    • Maria expresses reservations about marriage, presses for Ovid's departure, and enlists Frances to prevent private companionship; Ovid resents her approach but considers travel.
    • Ovid interprets Carmina's distress as evidence that Maria is deliberately separating them, loses trust in his mother and conceals the engagement while fearing for Carmina in her care.
    • Maria explains her former objections but professes to have accepted the engagement; her stated position changes, without establishing that her underlying opposition has ended.
    • Carmina learns that Maria attempted to use Le Frank to provoke Ovid's jealousy and divide them, and that Maria has a financial interest in preventing her marriage.
    • Maria explicitly seeks a means of undermining Ovid and Carmina's mutual confidence.
    • Maria's attempts to divide the lovers through reciprocal jealousy have failed, but she renews her interference by seeking help from Benjulia.

  • Carmina feels gratitude for Ovid's attentions.

    • Carmina visibly brightens on noticing Ovid, extending the evidence of her warm response to him.
    • Carmina's pleasure in Ovid's presence and decision to stay reveals reciprocal romantic interest beyond gratitude.
    • Carmina's attachment becomes evident in her protection of Ovid, urgent efforts to help him, relief at his recovery and grief at prospective separation.

  • Teresa seeks to determine whether Ovid is a good man.

    • Teresa's appeal for protection, recommendation of Ovid to Carmina and growing familiarity show that she now trusts him.

  • Ovid commits to visiting Carmina tomorrow before his departure.

    • Ovid arranges to attend the family breakfast and then promises Teresa that he will reach the Gallilees' house within half an hour; the visit has not yet occurred.
    • Ovid fulfills his commitment to visit Carmina by joining her at breakfast.

  • Ovid agrees to attend the reading of his uncle's will after being reminded that it appoints Maria as Carmina's guardian.

    • Ovid attends the reading and hears the provisions governing Carmina's guardianship and the eventual disposition of her fortune.

  • Mool has withheld that Robert's advances replace Maria's expected legacy, leaving her mistaken expectation intact and causing him shame and self-reproach.

    • The will's allusion to the small legacy's motive prompts Ovid's inquiry, but Mool diverts the conversation and Ovid accepts Maria's deceptive explanation that she wanted only a small remembrance; the prior advances remain concealed from him.

  • Bereavement and disappointment estrange the elder Graywell from his children: his daughters' concern with mourning clothes disgusts him, and Robert rejects the commercial career intended for him.

  • Maria's mortification at Susan's superior marriage drives her pursuit of intellectual distinction and social parity; her later marriage gives her the means to match Susan's material advantages.

    • The Professor's concession validates Maria's scientific claim and brings her relief.

  • Maria loses control over Ovid's education as responsibility passes to his educational and medical institutions.

  • Robert's rejection of hunting and churchgoing expectations alienates his English neighbours and precedes his departure and sale of the estate.

  • Robert establishes an artistic life in Italy, prepares a studio and gallery, plans a series of pictures and resolves to remain there for life.

  • Robert marries an artist's model, lowering his standing with his family; Lord Northlake favours maintaining relations, and Maria agrees to an indulgent response.

  • After Robert pays her debts, Maria incurs fresh debts and seeks further financial assistance from him.

  • After Robert's wife dies, Maria attempts to persuade him to return to England and live with her.

  • Maria expects an increasingly large legacy from Robert, mistakenly treating his repeated payments of her debts as grounds for that expectation.

    • The will awards Maria only one hundred pounds for a mourning ring, defeating her expectation of a large personal legacy.
    • Maria's attempt to obtain her brother's money by challenging Carmina's parentage fails because the allegation does not invalidate the bequest.

  • Maria's guardianship of Carmina is defined by the will's provisions for her education, maintenance and marriage, with restrictions on financial control and religious conversion.

    • Maria discovers that her ward can resist management and openly reject an insult.
    • Maria exercises her guardianship by directing Carmina's education and forbidding her accepted visit to Scotland.
    • Maria asserts her authority as guardian over Carmina's belongings, companions and travel.
    • Mool confirms that Carmina retains her inheritance regardless of the allegation and that Maria must continue as guardian or resign in favour of Lady Northlake.

  • The will gives Maria and her daughters a financial interest in Carmina dying unmarried or without offspring, placing that interest in tension with Maria's responsibility as guardian.

    • Frances understands the inheritance provision and explains it to Carmina, making Maria's financial interest in her unmarried or childless death known to both women.
    • Maria acts directly against her ward's financial interests; the legal rebuff leaves her guardianship intact, and she refuses to promise silence about the allegation.
    • Mool's information reinforces Maria's financial interest in retaining supervision of Carmina.

  • Maria proposes providing Carmina with two carriages and dresses from her Paris suppliers, and goes upstairs intending to tell her about her father's generous allowance.

  • Ovid's rescue of a starving cat creates an exclusive attachment; its company comforts him and helps him act on his decision to cancel the voyage.

  • Teresa seeks Ovid's help protecting Carmina when her husband's failing health requires her to leave.

    • The telegram precipitates Teresa's departure, making the circumstances behind her appeal for Ovid's protection immediate.
    • Teresa's departure makes the loss of immediate protection actual; Ovid worries about leaving Carmina and seeks to understand her reliance on Frances.

  • Teresa develops trust and familiarity with Ovid, recommends him to Carmina and welcomes his decision to remain.

    • Teresa actively supports Ovid's courtship by arranging privacy with Carmina.

  • Teresa gives Carmina a comforting false account of her circumstances, concealing the situation that prompts her appeal to Ovid.

    • Carmina discovers Teresa's concealed hostility toward the family. Teresa admits that she misled her to avoid discouraging her, but these events do not establish disclosure of every concealed circumstance.

  • Ovid withholds from Teresa that his attachment to Carmina caused him to cancel his voyage.

  • Teresa warns Ovid that Carmina may have enemies in his mother's household, without explaining whom she suspects or why.

  • Ovid proposes an outing to the Zoological Gardens with Carmina; Teresa and the children are included, with Frances assigned to supervise.

    • The proposed outing takes place, with the party visiting the aviaries and then the larger birds' paddocks.

  • Maria uses Frances's participation in the outing to prevent Ovid and Carmina from being alone; Frances recognizes this purpose and accepts the assignment.

    • Frances remains within the outing's supervisory arrangement and follows Ovid and Carmina when they move away. Although they find opportunities for private conversation, another observer identifies the governess's presence as a restraint on Ovid's courtship.
    • Frances remains with the children while Teresa helps Ovid and Carmina leave the others' sight, defeating the supervision intended to prevent their being alone.

  • Maria seeks Ovid's immediate departure so that she can control Carmina and pursue her private ends, urging travel on grounds of his health.

    • Benjulia instructs Maria to send Ovid away, and she secures Carmina's conditional agreement to help persuade him.
    • Carmina carries out Maria's charge and secures Ovid's agreement to travel, although the agreed departure is Saturday.
    • Maria learns that Ovid will leave at the end of the week, identifies a Saturday sailing to Canada and offers practical assistance; his impending departure accompanies her exceptional good spirits.
    • Maria presses the departure timetable, and Ovid leaves, fulfilling her immediate objective of securing his departure.

  • Maria concludes that Frances secretly loves Ovid, identifying him as the object of her frustrated attachment; this remains Maria's inference.

    • Maria acts on her inference by trying to provoke a revealing response; Frances guards herself, leaving the presumed attachment unconfirmed.
    • Maria discloses her allegation to Carmina, and Frances subsequently confirms that she loves Ovid, establishing the truth of Maria's earlier inference.

  • Carmina and Frances develop a mutual rivalry; Carmina believes Frances dislikes her, and Frances's attempt to engage Ovid privately ends in distress when he firmly defends Carmina's intelligence.

    • Frances pursues influence over Carmina through an offer of confidence, adding a calculated approach to their existing rivalry without establishing that Carmina trusts her.
    • Frances notices and remembers Carmina's displeasure at Ovid's absence, while Carmina now feels ashamed of her initial dislike of Frances; their perceptions remain unequal.
    • Growing confidence complicates the rivalry: Maria notices their increasing closeness, and Frances subsequently seeks Carmina in her room.
    • Tenderness and Carmina's trusting embrace briefly soften Frances's rivalry, but mention of Ovid revives her jealousy and weakens her benevolence.
    • Carmina now regards Frances as a trusted friend and protector, reversing her earlier expressed distrust; Ovid is alarmed and intends to investigate the change.
    • Frances offers to care for Carmina, while Carmina accommodates her private farewell and acknowledges her unrequited attachment, softening their rivalry.
    • Frances's frustrated attachment turns into jealous despair and a willingness to assist in separating the cousins.
    • Carmina accepts Frances's explanation for her coldness and finds comfort in her company, without suspecting her jealousy. Frances feels relieved by that trust but irritated by Carmina's affection and angry with herself.
    • Frances's hostility becomes explicit. A brief forgiveness gives way to a sharper quarrel when she treats Ovid contemptuously.

  • Zo feels displaced by Ovid's attention to Carmina, but Carmina's explanation and Ovid's familiar affection relieve her jealousy.

  • Teresa seeks to discover what troubles Zo and draws out her account, learning that Zo interprets Ovid's attention to Carmina through a witnessed kiss between the household servants.

  • Ovid seeks to stop Zo's potentially embarrassing comparison between his behaviour toward Carmina and another man's courtship, moving away with Carmina before Zo can elaborate.

  • Benjulia conceals the nature of his laboratory research, securing it against observers and dismissing a servant who attempted to look inside; competing rumours leave Ovid uncertain about his work.

    • Ovid probes Benjulia's concealed research and suspects professional rivalry behind his travel advice, but reaches only a tentative inference that Benjulia remains devoted to chemistry.
    • Carmina's comparison with a chemist's stained hands makes Benjulia's unstained hands newly suspicious to Ovid, especially in connection with the monkey; his actual research remains undisclosed.
    • The locked laboratory, moaning and dried blood intensify Ovid's suspicions, but Benjulia offers a rejected explanation and evades direct confirmation of animal experiments.
    • Lemuel accidentally discovers the laboratory activities. Benjulia threatens him with death if he reveals them, while Lemuel assures him that shame will enforce his silence.
    • Lemuel's discovery is explained, and Benjulia explicitly discloses his enjoyment of vivisection, competitive secrecy and pursuit of glory. His proposed public inspection remains an intention.
    • The account of Benjulia expelling an intruder who tried to observe his laboratory supplies further evidence of his enforcement of secrecy.
    • The footman witnesses evidence of the laboratory's animal experiments; the laboratory burns and Benjulia dies, ending his maintenance of its secrecy.

  • Benjulia prioritizes his chemical experiments and limits medical practice to serious consultations.

    • Benjulia refuses to resume regular professional work without further knowledge, sustaining his withdrawal from ordinary practice.
    • Suspicion that Ovid treated a brain disease interrupts Benjulia's intended day's work.

  • Ovid takes Benjulia away from the women for a brief conversation; Carmina suspects he has a reason to keep Benjulia apart from them.

    • The private conversation takes place and lasts longer than Ovid intended; it ends with Ovid inviting Benjulia to return with him to Carmina.

  • Frances seeks to win Carmina's confidence and influence her by offering confidential information about Benjulia and Ovid's concern.

    • Maria recognizes growing confidence between Frances and Carmina, and Frances initiates another private encounter.
    • Frances gains Carmina's trust through professions of affection and warnings about Maria, including her purpose in sending Ovid away.
    • Carmina's declaration that Frances is a trusted friend and protector shows that Frances has gained her confidence.
    • Teresa's warnings weaken Carmina's trust, and Frances's successive outbursts undermine her position as Carmina's confidante.

  • Gallilee's unexplained aversion to Benjulia troubles Ovid, who treats it as instinct; Frances conveys this concern to Carmina.

  • Benjulia intends to examine an isolated sick monkey after speaking with Ovid and considers taking it home; Frances conjectures that his interest indicates a brain disease.

    • The monkey's brain disease is confirmed, the staff intend to kill it after Benjulia's examination, and Benjulia chooses to see it instead of accompanying Ovid to Carmina.
    • Benjulia has obtained custody of the sick monkey and retains it after temporarily entrusting it to the keeper during Ovid's treatment.
    • Benjulia has taken the sick monkey home for attempted treatment.
    • The monkey dies, ending the prospective examination or taking it home; Benjulia reports its death to Ovid.

  • Benjulia urges Ovid to recuperate in Canada and avoid Italy.

    • Ovid's collapse strengthens Benjulia's insistence on prompt departure, which he now communicates to Carmina; no destination is settled.
    • Canada remains a proposed destination through Benjulia's recommendation.
    • Benjulia's recommendation becomes the basis of Maria's preparations for a Canadian journey, although no booking is recorded.
    • Benjulia supports the Canadian journey with practical guidance and an introduction to a Montreal doctor.

  • Ovid seeks to discover Benjulia's research and his reasons for discouraging Italy, suspecting that he fears a competing discovery about brains and nerves.

    • The absence of chemical stains on Benjulia's hands gives Ovid a new basis for doubting the apparent nature of his research and connecting it with his interest in the monkey.
    • Ovid tests his suspicions about animal experimentation and presses Benjulia about his warning concerning physiologists; Benjulia admits possible fear of Ovid's new ideas without explaining his research.

  • Ovid's concern for Carmina's family and for vulnerable creatures clashes with Benjulia's apparent indifference; apologies ease their quarrel without settling Ovid's objections.

    • Ovid's concern about animal suffering and Benjulia's evasiveness bring them to the verge of an open quarrel; Ovid leaves angry enough to consider destroying the introduction.
    • Their ethical disagreement becomes an open rupture: Ovid refuses Benjulia's hand and threatens his life if Carmina dies despite Ovid's treatment; Benjulia's distrust returns.
    • Pity overcomes Ovid's resentment and prompts an offer of reconciliation, but Benjulia refuses his hand.

  • Teresa's rejection of Maria's instruction provokes a quarrel that Frances interrupts.

  • Teresa undertakes to keep Frances away so that Ovid can court Carmina privately.

  • Ovid's need to leave for his health threatens separation just as he and Carmina reach an understanding of his love.

    • Pressure for Ovid's departure increases, and Carmina agrees conditionally to support the separation his recovery is said to require.
    • Their mutual declaration intensifies Ovid's resistance to separation, but he ultimately renews his commitment to travel and accepts Saturday.
    • The approaching departure gains a concrete sailing option, while Ovid privately renews his love and promises another visit before leaving the house.
    • The threatened separation becomes actual despite mutual promises, a happy embrace and a final kiss; Carmina tries to spare Ovid the burden of her tears.
    • Ovid's departure on his long journey makes the threatened separation actual.
    • Carmina struggles to write cheerfully during Ovid's absence, although his letter and her thoughts of him provide relief.
    • Further travel for Ovid's recovery leaves the date of their reunion unsettled.
    • His longing for Carmina increases, but he continues travelling for his recovery and supplies no return date.

  • Carmina seeks to help Ovid recover and learn how to protect him from further illness, receiving advice that he must leave promptly.

    • Carmina conditionally undertakes to persuade Ovid to leave for his health.
    • Carmina resolves to persuade Ovid to leave for his health even after accepting that her aunt wants to separate them.
    • Carmina responds urgently to news of Ovid's pallor, presses him to travel and takes responsibility for fixing his departure.
    • Carmina recognizes that Maria's overpowering activity is oppressing Ovid, adding to her understanding of what affects his condition.

  • Teresa commits to answering Carmina's letters after leaving.

  • Carmina's independence and open resentment of insult challenge Maria's expectation that she can manage her niece.

    • Carmina regrets her conduct and writes an apology, but her belief in their mutual aversion and Frances's warning leave the underlying conflict unsettled.
    • Their quarrel is accompanied by Carmina's concealed dislike and fear of her aunt, showing that the underlying tension persists.
    • Maria's coldness and prohibition of the Scotland visit further constrain Carmina's wishes and deepen her unhappiness under her aunt's authority.
    • Carmina asserts her right to choose her bedtime; Maria answers with physical coercion. Carmina subsequently suffers severe weakness and renewed distress.
    • Knowledge of Maria's financial interest strengthens Carmina's resistance; she defends Frances, contemplates escape and bars further visits.
    • Carmina's resistance to Maria's authority culminates in a confrontation whose slander leaves her unresponsive.

  • Maria enlists Carmina's influence to persuade Ovid to leave; Carmina conditionally agrees to try.

    • Carmina's conditional agreement becomes a firm resolve to urge Ovid's departure, despite her new understanding of Maria's separating purpose.
    • Carmina fulfills the undertaking to persuade Ovid to leave by securing his agreement to begin the journey on Saturday.

  • Zoe refuses an assigned lesson, prompting Maria to order bread and water as punishment.

    • Zoe's resistance to lessons escalates: Le Frank cannot manage her, she runs outside, and the footman brings her back and locks her in the house. Carmina urges leniency, and Frances sets out to find her.

  • Maria tries to estrange Frances and Carmina by provoking disagreement about Ovid, but abandons her immediate effort to prevent their conferring.

    • The women's conference produces trust and exposes Maria's purpose to Carmina, frustrating Maria's immediate attempt to estrange them.

  • Maria attempts to expose Frances's presumed passion for Ovid, while Frances recognizes the attempted entrapment and becomes guarded.

    • Frances deliberately conceals her love from Maria and scrutinizes the interview's pretexts, suspecting that Carmina's marriage is its concealed subject.

  • Carmina seeks reconciliation with her aunt through a written apology, promising better conduct; delivery is delayed while her aunt is out.

    • Maria acknowledges Carmina's note, says she admired it and assures her that she was not angry, completing the apology's immediate bid for reconciliation.

  • Ovid sends Carmina a concealed folded paper through the maid; Carmina receives it, but its contents remain undisclosed.

    • The concealed communication is identified as Ovid's invitation to meet in the Square's garden, and Carmina joins him there.

  • Ovid and Carmina agree to conceal their engagement from Maria until his return.

    • Ovid repeats his declaration of love privately to Carmina, maintaining their confidential understanding without a recorded disclosure of the engagement to Maria.
    • Ovid explicitly confirms the engagement to Maria, ending its concealment from her.

  • Ovid and Carmina agree that he will begin a journey for his health on Saturday, with his departure entrusted to her decision.

    • Ovid announces his end-of-week departure and confirms that his household arrangements are settled; Maria identifies a steamer sailing on Saturday.
    • Carmina urges the preparatory visit, and Ovid obtains travel information and an introduction he resolves to use; his departure has not yet occurred.
    • Ovid leaves the family home to begin the agreed journey.

  • Carmina conceals her dislike and fear of Maria to reassure Ovid, leaving him with a misleading impression of her feelings.

    • Carmina continues withholding information about Maria and the conversazione from Ovid.
    • Carmina attempts to end her concealment by explaining her suffering to Ovid, but the theft prevents this letter from reaching the post.

  • Maria wants Ovid to postpone marriage for several years until he has attained the highest professional honours.

    • Maria identifies an immediate financial reason to oppose Ovid's marriage: it would prevent the assistance she expects from him.
    • The marriage ends Maria's effort to postpone their union.

  • Ovid intends to discover why Carmina now trusts Frances as a friend and protector, but Maria's arrival interrupts the inquiry.

    • Ovid receives Frances's promise and Carmina's explanation of her unrequited love, gaining insight into their understanding without an explicit account of why Carmina trusts her.
    • Carmina persuades Ovid to think more kindly of Frances, although these events do not establish that his inquiry into her trust is completed.
    • Frances's silence renews Ovid's uncertainty about her, without supplying an explanation.

  • Maria undertakes to thank Benjulia and obtain introductions to prominent people in Canada for Ovid.

    • Maria's approach leads to Ovid's visit, practical Canadian travel advice and a letter introducing him to a Montreal doctor.

  • Ovid arranges for his manservant to accompany him and for his household and cat to be cared for during his absence.

  • Ovid promises Carmina that he will visit her the following day.

    • Ovid returns and spends his promised visit with Carmina before leaving.

  • Maria cultivates Ovid's confidence through sympathy and indulgence, allowing uninterrupted companionship with Carmina.

    • Maria reassures Ovid through professed acceptance, a pledge of care, attention to his warning and withdrawal from the lovers' farewell.

  • Ovid decides to use Benjulia's sealed introduction to the Montreal doctor out of pride, after considering destroying it.

    • Ovid presents Benjulia's introduction to Morphew and gains his friendship, subsequently discovering the letter's dismissive instructions.

  • Maria pledges to give Carmina maternal care and make her happy during Ovid's absence.

    • Maria's cold severity and refusal of the Scotland visit work against her pledge to make Carmina happy.
    • Ovid's misgivings about Carmina's relations with Maria, reinforced by Zo's condemnation of the household, cast further doubt on the promised maternal care.
    • Maria frightens and forcibly handles Carmina, whose subsequent physical distress contradicts the promised maternal care.
    • Carmina experiences Maria's conduct as cruelty and revenge, and refuses further access to her room, further undermining the promised maternal care.
    • Maria's confirmed coldness, covert surveillance and disappointment at Carmina's uneventful return further undermine her promise of maternal care.
    • Maria's promise of maternal care is contradicted by abuse that precipitates Carmina's collapse.

  • Ovid asks Maria to prevent Carmina from seeing Benjulia; Maria promises to bear his warning in mind without explicitly agreeing to exclude him.

    • Ovid's requested separation of Carmina from Benjulia fails in practice: Benjulia enters her room and examines her.

  • Ovid withholds his specific suspicions about Benjulia and Benjulia's slur from Maria, leaving her to interpret his objection as jealousy.

    • Maria revisits Ovid's warning and concludes that his stated objection conceals another reason; his specific suspicions remain undisclosed.

  • Frances promises Ovid to make Carmina's life pleasant during his absence.

    • Frances's promise is established as sincere when made, but her subsequent jealousy and willingness to separate the cousins put its fulfillment in doubt.
    • Ovid's grateful acknowledgment of Frances's promise provokes rage and a quarrel, defeating her undertaking to make Carmina's life pleasant.
    • Frances's silence troubles Ovid, and Zo's adverse account of the household supplies no reassurance that Frances is fulfilling her promise.
    • Frances begins acting protectively toward Carmina by proposing a warning, rising to intervene against Maria and undertaking her care.
    • Frances tends Carmina, gains access despite Maria's opposition, tries to spare her distress and develops tenderness while renouncing romantic competition.
    • Frances's departure prevents her from continuing her promised companionship and care within the household.
    • Frances begins fulfilling her previously frustrated promise through practical nursing and a willingness to sacrifice her new employment.

  • Zoe resolves to write to Ovid during his absence, supported by Gallilee against Maria's objection and enabled by Ovid's addressed envelopes.

    • Zo carries out her intention to write, sending Ovid her unfavorable assessment of the household.
    • Zo completes and conceals a letter asking Ovid to return urgently.

  • Maria plans to preserve financial appearances for six months through partial payments to creditors.

    • A creditor refuses payment on account, and Maria discovers that her withdrawals and calculation error have exhausted and overdrawn the account before the next income payment.

  • Maria intends to confess her financial difficulties to Ovid and ask for assistance from his professional savings.

  • Maria sees Ovid's marriage to Carmina as a threat to the financial assistance she needs and to her family's continued residence in their house.

    • Maria moves from perceiving the marriage as a threat to resolving to place a first obstacle in its way.
    • Carmina learns of Maria's financial need and understands the inheritance incentive behind opposition to her marriage.
    • The marriage takes place, and Ovid offers unrestricted financial support for Maria despite it.

  • Maria introduces Carmina as a prospective pupil of Le Frank during an interview whose underlying purpose she conceals from Frances.

    • Maria reveals Le Frank's teaching proposal, resolves to proceed alone with an obstacle to the marriage, and has Frances send Carmina to her; the appointment remains undecided.
    • Maria attempts to engage Le Frank as Carmina's teacher, but he refuses, citing another pupil's demands on his time.
    • The concealed purpose of the proposed lessons is exposed as an attempt to divide the lovers; Le Frank's offence at Carmina has thwarted the scheme.

  • Frances's defeated hope of winning Ovid produces jealous despair and a suicidal impulse, interrupted by the maid.

    • Maria's pointed reference to Ovid's devotion to Carmina visibly renews Frances's hurt.
    • Frances develops tenderness and penitence and accepts that her love is unreturned, expressly renouncing competition with Carmina.
    • Frances's sleeplessness and distress intensify when Ovid is mentioned. Carmina suspects the connection; Frances fails to explain herself in letters and leaves the household.
    • Frances overcomes the selfish conflict associated with her disappointed love and becomes trustworthy toward Carmina, while still wishing Ovid to recognize her loyalty.

  • Frances prepares to help Maria separate Ovid and Carmina if that is Maria's purpose, or otherwise discover her concealed motive.

    • Frances tests Maria's concealed purpose through a calculated warning about Ovid's reaction. Maria recognizes that seeking Frances's cooperation without confiding in her has failed.
    • Frances admits her potential complicity with Maria, warns Carmina against trusting her and disavows competing for Ovid, turning away from the motive for helping separate the lovers.

  • Frances uses Ovid's reservations about Le Frank to warn that appointing him as Carmina's teacher could provoke Ovid's distrust and jealousy.

  • Le Frank overhears Carmina disparaging his appearance and musicianship and becomes her lasting enemy; Carmina only fears he overheard, while Frances is certain and doubts he will teach her.

    • Le Frank withdraws his earlier offer after hearing Carmina's insults and evades her attempted apology while giving Maria another explanation for his refusal.
    • Carmina's alarm and revulsion sustain the estrangement. Maria discovers Le Frank's concealed vindictiveness, while he begins suspecting a hidden motive behind Carmina's apology.
    • Le Frank's resentment becomes extreme distrust and motivates a covert search for material against Carmina.
    • Le Frank's hostility becomes direct intimidation and obstruction. Carmina forces him to yield by threatening to summon servants, but he continues his pursuit of revenge through her letter.

  • Carmina seeks to apologize to Le Frank through Frances, but he professes not to understand the approach.

    • Carmina directly seeks Le Frank's forgiveness and renewed friendship, but his hand-kiss repels her and leaves her suspecting another mistake; reconciliation remains unconfirmed.
    • Le Frank interprets Carmina's reconciliation attempt as a malicious trap threatening his position.

  • Carmina's loan to Frances provokes withdrawal and hostility; Carmina forgives her initial outburst, but their subsequent quarrel over Ovid ruptures their friendship.

    • Carmina initiates reconciliation and Frances asks forgiveness, attributing her insolence to envy of the engagement. Carmina believes their friendship fully restored, though Frances withholds a kiss until she deserves it.
    • Affection and compassion repair their estrangement, but Frances's confirmed love for Ovid and admission of deceit leave Carmina uncertain how their relationship should continue.
    • Despite their distress, Carmina offers renewed affection and Frances accepts it, beginning reconciliation after their rupture.
    • Frances's practical help comforts Carmina, showing renewed trust despite their earlier rupture; Frances recognizes Carmina's unfinished reference to her feelings for Ovid.
    • Their renewed confidence and Frances's tenderness reopen intimacy after their rupture; Frances offers Carmina a means of escape.

  • Carmina forms a warm attachment to Lady Northlake and wishes she were her guardian.

  • Lady Northlake invites Carmina to Scotland to meet Lord Northlake; Carmina accepts, but Maria forbids the visit.

    • Northlake renews the wish to host Carmina and approves Ovid's love, but Maria resolves to prevent the visit, using Carmina's illness as an excuse.

  • Gallilee promises Carmina seaside sailing, on the unconfirmed assumption that Maria intends a country holiday.

    • Maria decides to remain in London and defer taking the family to the seaside, obstructing Gallilee's promised sailing outing.

  • Carmina asks Teresa to send flowers from her former garden.

  • Ovid and Morphew become friends through Benjulia's introduction.

  • Ovid writes to his concert-manager friend to arrange a box for Carmina.

  • Ovid undertakes to relieve an impoverished dying physician's suffering when cure is impossible; the patient's death ends his care.

  • Ovid asks Carmina to keep his account confidential, especially from Benjulia.

  • Ovid discovers that Benjulia's introduction contains dismissive instructions, qualifying the apparent helpfulness of his recommendation.

  • The physician's history reveals a marriage sustained by repeated forgiveness despite ruin and desertion; his devotion survives his wife's suicide.

  • The dying physician seeks a cure so that he can continue caring for his wife's grave, but dies without achieving it.

  • Ovid commits to fulfilling the physician's dying request for burial in his wife's grave, as a thank-offering for Carmina.

  • The physician's manuscript gives Ovid a prospective professional opportunity after he recognizes its solution to an outstanding medical problem.

    • The physician's discoveries are being published as a book, and Ovid commits to using them for humanity's benefit while acknowledging his debt.
    • The professional opportunity supplied by the Montreal physician's manuscript has culminated in Ovid's published medical book, whose discoveries anticipate Benjulia's research.

  • Frances conceals the identity of the person she loves; Carmina suspects unhappy love but does not identify Ovid, relieving Frances.

    • Maria's allegation prompts Carmina to seek confirmation, and Frances's written answer reveals that Ovid is the man she loves.

  • Carmina seeks to encourage Frances through Father Patrizio's counsel; Frances studies the letter and memorizes an undisclosed sentence.

  • Father Patrizio undertakes to consider Teresa's concerns about Carmina's engagement and situation and sends counsel that Teresa forwards to Carmina.

    • Patrizio sends further counsel directly to Carmina, favors marriage, and requests her help with Teresa and news of their circumstances. His letter strengthens Carmina's resolve to escape.

  • Frances proposes warning Carmina about Maria, but Maria's entrance interrupts before she discloses particulars.

    • Frances delivers the interrupted warning, explaining Maria's attempted interference, financial need and interest under the will.
    • Frances renews her interrupted protective intervention, alarming Carmina about a confrontation with Maria and proposing escape to Canada.

  • Frances undertakes to care for Carmina after trembling, weakness and dizziness leave her unable to rise.

    • Frances continues caring for Carmina around her teaching duties, carries her to bed and benefits from medical orders that overcome Maria's attempt to prevent her visits.
    • Frances is assigned to remain with and supervise Carmina until Null arrives.
    • Frances withdraws from Carmina, refuses the drive and ultimately leaves, interrupting her undertaking to care for her.
    • Frances returns and briefly elicits a joyful response from Carmina. Despite Carmina's relapse, she secures Teresa's consent to take her place and attempts to rouse Carmina with news of Ovid.

  • Maria terminates Frances's employment with one month's notice, placing a limit on her continued position in the household.

    • Maria gives Frances notice to leave, and Frances separately offers to depart if Carmina objects to her remaining.
    • Maria defers Frances's dismissal, postponing the termination of her household employment.
    • Maria considers ending Frances's employment immediately rather than allowing her to serve the month's notice.
    • Frances leaves the household, ending the position Maria had already placed under notice.

  • Carmina conditionally plans to escape the household tomorrow and seek refuge with Lady Northlake.

    • News of Teresa's imminent arrival leads Carmina to abandon her immediate escape to Lady Northlake and decide to remain until Ovid returns.

  • Carmina refuses further visits from Maria and secures her door against her.

    • Maria gains access to Carmina and resumes direct intervention, defeating her attempt to exclude her aunt.

  • Frances's confession and offer to leave force Carmina to decide whether to retain her companionship despite her admitted deceit and love for Ovid; compassion makes the decision distressing.

    • Carmina answers the immediate question of retaining Frances's companionship by offering her hand in reconciliation, which Frances accepts.

  • Benjulia seeks to clarify his Canadian friend's complimentary allusion to Ovid by questioning Maria and examining Ovid's letters; Maria defers considering his invitation.

    • Benjulia narrows his inquiry to the illness of Ovid's Canadian patient, writes to Maria for details and requests Morphew's letter to Lemuel as another possible source.
    • Maria visits Benjulia and leaves Ovid's letters for him to examine later.
    • Ovid's letters yield no apparent reference to the Montreal illness. Benjulia returns them and telegraphs Morphew directly to ask whether the patient had brain disease, arranging delivery of the reply.

  • After her husband's death, Teresa intends to travel to London and rejoin Carmina.

    • Accommodation is secured, and Carmina sends Teresa its address and the landlady's name, enabling her planned return to London.
    • After attending to the legal formalities required by her husband's intestate death, Teresa leaves Rome and intends to travel night and day to reach Carmina sooner.
    • Teresa has reached Paris and announces a specific journey to arrive with Carmina tomorrow at six, bringing Carmina relief.
    • Teresa reaches London and rejoins Carmina in the Gallilee house.

  • Carmina intends to use her money to support Teresa in her widowhood.

    • After learning that Teresa has an inherited income, Carmina plans suitable lodgings and secretly paying half her expenses.

  • Maria restricts Carmina's access to Teresa and her freedom of movement, requiring separate accommodation for Teresa and approval of Carmina's companions and travel arrangements.

    • Maria extends her control over Carmina's movements by resolving to prevent Northlake's visit and keep the household in London.
    • Maria determines Carmina's carriage arrangements, duration of absence and accompanying servant, extending her control over Carmina's movements.
    • Maria controls Carmina's companion and extends supervision into covert monitoring of her movements and communications.
    • Carmina has disclosed her suffering to Teresa, and Frances proposes leaving with Teresa to escape the household's control.
    • Carmina seeks legal advice about her aunt's authority, describes continued guardianship as suffering and learns how marriage would end that authority.
    • After Frances authorizes Carmina to take the children out, Maria forbids further unauthorized outings and declares that their instigator will no longer influence Carmina.
    • Joseph's attempt to take Carmina's telegram to Maria under orders reveals interference with her correspondence, though Gallilee restores the telegram to her.
    • Teresa reaches Carmina despite Maria's restrictions, and Gallilee and Benjulia support taking Carmina into Teresa's care.
    • Carmina has left Maria's household; Gallilee conceals her destination and Benjulia orders Maria excluded from her refuge.

  • Maria leaves Carmina and Frances together to discover whether jealousy divides them or they share a private understanding.

    • Maria learns that Carmina and Frances are conferring privately, but their subject remains unknown; she considers dismissing Frances immediately.

  • After two failed attempts to divide Ovid and Carmina through jealousy, Maria plans to visit Benjulia to obtain a means of opposing their marriage, preparing to charm him if necessary.

    • Maria reaches Benjulia's house and agrees to wait for him, putting her planned visit into effect without yet obtaining help against the marriage.
    • Maria obtains a scandal about Carmina's parentage from Benjulia and attempts to use it to overturn her inheritance.
    • Maria's visit to Benjulia is recorded as having taken place.
    • Maria now regards the parentage scandal as a possible means of inducing Ovid to abandon Carmina.

  • An unpaid tradesman rejects Maria's partial payment and appeals to Gallilee; Maria resolves to settle his bill and stop employing him, but the discovery of the overdraft interrupts payment.

  • Maria seeks relief from the overdraft through a loan secured on Gallilee's investments, which requires his request and signature; she summons him for the evening without explaining her purpose.

  • Benjulia seeks Morphew's letter to Lemuel to discover whether Ovid's Canadian patient suffered from brain disease, overcoming his aversion to contacting Lemuel.

    • Benjulia obtains the letter, but its permitted passages provide only praise of Ovid. After briefly abandoning the inquiry, he requests the letter again and receives it; whether Ovid's patient had brain disease remains unanswered.
    • The Montreal friend's telegram answers that Ovid's patient did not have brain disease, satisfying Benjulia's inquiry and completely reassuring him.

  • Lemuel's accidental discovery of Benjulia's secret laboratory activities turns Benjulia's indifference toward him into enmity; Benjulia threatens to kill him if he discloses the secret.

    • Their hostility develops into competing purposes: Lemuel seeks retaliation and supports opposition to Benjulia, while Benjulia treats Lemuel as a prospective subject of medical investigation.

  • Lemuel seeks to retaliate against Benjulia by provoking his temper, using the withheld passages of Morphew's letter and questions about medical research.

    • Lemuel's questions and Morphew's letter provoke Benjulia into agitated avowals, but the encounter frightens Lemuel into leaving.

  • Morphew plans a book attacking Benjulia and asks Lemuel to arrange publication; Lemuel commits to assisting publication and improving the attack.

    • Benjulia reads Morphew's proposed attack and promises to buy the book if it is published; publication itself remains unconfirmed.

  • Lemuel joins organized opposition to Benjulia's practices and supports a proposed public attack on him.

  • Benjulia suspects that Lemuel's brain is deteriorating and uses their proposed discussion of medical research to investigate him, while privately wishing to place him on his experimental table.

    • Finding the source of Lemuel's questions in Morphew's letter makes Benjulia abandon his suspicion of cerebral deterioration and lose clinical interest in him.

  • Benjulia declares that he intends to open his workshop to public inspection.

    • The laboratory's destruction and Benjulia's death prevent his declared public inspection.

  • Benjulia pursues an allegedly imminent major discovery for personal glory, concealing his work because he fears competitors.

    • Reliable experimental results advance Benjulia's investigation of brain disease. He briefly considers studying the cook's emotional shock, then abandons the idea when he concludes that crying has spared her brain.
    • Despite renewing his commitment to research, Benjulia discovers that Ovid has published the discoveries first. The loss destroys his prospect of scientific priority, and his death ends further pursuit.

  • Benjulia's distress at an experimental monkey's suffering and wish to end its misery fail to stop him continuing the experiments.

    • Benjulia ends the experiments by killing animals unable to leave and releasing others before his death. The conflict between pity and continued experimentation ends without establishing an explicit moral renunciation.

  • Maria seeks to invalidate her brother's will and divert Carmina's inheritance to his near relations by alleging that Carmina is another man's daughter.

    • Documentary proof destroys the factual basis of the parentage allegation, and Benjulia undertakes to correct it before Maria; her response remains unknown.
    • Maria learns that the parentage slander on which her challenge to the will depends has been conclusively disproved.

  • Benjulia's unproved allegation about Carmina's parentage reaches Maria and Mool; Mool urges Maria to conceal it from Carmina, but she gives no undertaking.

    • Mool and Benjulia now possess the refutation, but Maria has not yet been shown receiving it. Benjulia waits at her house to correct his allegation.
    • Maria tells Carmina the false allegation of illegitimacy and accuses her mother of adultery.
    • Mool's papers concerning the slander pass through Benjulia and are sent for delivery with Benjulia identified as their source.

  • Mool opposes Maria's attack on Carmina's legitimacy and her mother's reputation, rejecting the evidence and defending the mother's character.

    • Mool actively investigates the allegation, discovers a dissenting witness and prepares to pursue evidence with which to challenge Maria.
    • Maria's conduct further alienates Mool, who obtains documentary proof against the slander and initiates its correction.
    • The allegation is conclusively disproved, and Mool's professional relationship with Maria ends.

  • Mool decides to remain the Gallilee family's legal adviser so that he may help Carmina, abandoning his intended resignation.

    • Mool acts to protect Carmina by investigating the scandal, explaining her legal position and attempting to gain her confidence.
    • Mool acts on his protective commitment by finding the witness, securing usable evidence and arranging for Maria to receive the truth.
    • The end of Mool's professional relationship with Maria prevents him from continuing to protect Carmina through that position.
    • Mool's continued position as adviser enables him to learn of the crisis, coordinate protection with Gallilee, urge Ovid's return and identify a possible remedy in the will.
    • Mool extends his protective intervention to Teresa, representing her and exposing Le Frank's intrusion before the magistrate.

  • Frances undertakes to find lodgings for Teresa while taking the children out after dinner.

    • Frances secures lodgings for Teresa near the Gallilee house.

  • Maria arranges daily carriage drives for Carmina, including a two-hour outing accompanied by her maid.

    • Carmina completes a carriage outing accompanied by Marceline.
    • Rain prevents another carriage outing, to Carmina's relief, and she subsequently remains at home.
    • Carmina completes another carriage outing with Marceline, accompanied this time by both children.
    • Carmina undertakes another carriage outing with Marceline; a near collision frightens them both.

  • Maria identifies Le Frank's concealed resentment as potentially useful against Carmina and cultivates him through flattery, patronage and a confidential conversation.

    • Maria's instigation intensifies Le Frank's distrust of Carmina and makes him construe her attempted reconciliation as hostile.
    • Maria acknowledges Le Frank's interception as a service and tacitly authorizes a further search for leverage over Teresa.

  • Le Frank plans immediate publication of his song with a dedication to Maria, promising her the first copy; Maria accepts and subscribes for twenty-five additional copies.

    • The song has attracted disappointing subscriptions and exposed Le Frank to publication expenses; Maria undertakes to cover the account.

  • Frances seeks to verify Maria's changed treatment of Carmina by observing them together; she confirms the coldness but mistakenly attributes it to Teresa's expected return.

    • Frances obtains further direct evidence of Maria's attitude by seeing her expression toward Carmina reflected in the mirror.

  • Maria requires Marceline to monitor Carmina during her carriage outings and report changes of route or communications; the first outing yields nothing to report.

    • Marceline refuses to spy on Carmina and gives notice of leaving Maria's service.

  • Gallilee takes Carmina to a conjuring exhibition, but her headache and exhaustion force her to leave before it ends.

  • Gallilee asks Le Frank to conceal the conjuring outing from the children.

  • Le Frank secretly searches Carmina's rooms for compromising papers and plans to try again when her desk is unlocked; her continued presence prevents another attempt.

    • Denied another opportunity to search Carmina's room, Le Frank acquires her private correspondence and intends to examine it for secrets.
    • Learning that Carmina left her desk and keys behind enables Le Frank to undertake another covert search of her correspondence.
    • Searching Carmina's room confirms Le Frank's personal suspicions and supplies Patrizio's warning about Teresa's resentment.

  • Ovid sends his guide to collect letters from his bankers and arranges a rendezvous with the canoe party.

  • Zoe intends to run away to the street musician after Frances punishes her, but rain prevents her departure.

    • Further punishment accompanies Zoe's renewed declaration that she will go to the Italian boy; no departure occurs.
    • Zoe renews her intention to run away because of Frances; no departure is recorded.

  • Frances proposes that Carmina escape with Teresa to Quebec and await Ovid there; Carmina forms an intention to go.

    • Carmina decides to follow Frances's escape proposal. Frances specifies a secret departure on foot with Teresa early the day after her arrival; Carmina has received her quarterly allowance, and Patrizio's letter removes her remaining hesitation about defying her guardian.
    • Carmina resolves to escape and join Ovid, but proposes writing before departure and waiting at a Quebec hotel while Teresa locates him through his bankers, revising Frances's advice to write after locating him.
    • Without Frances's support, Carmina loses confidence in carrying out the escape and suspects that Ovid might disapprove and side with his mother.
    • Carmina's intercepted letter confirms her intention to join Ovid in Quebec upon Teresa's arrival, although Maria now knows the plan.
    • Le Frank's betrayal prevents Carmina's intended journey to Ovid.
    • Carmina still intends to escape to Canada, but recurring illness prevents departure and makes her impatient.
    • Teresa's hope of escaping England with Carmina collapses; her submission had been intended to facilitate escape.

  • Frances fears that Teresa's knowledge of Carmina's suffering will lead to a confrontation with Maria.

    • Carmina's account has turned Teresa against Maria. Patrizio's attempt to moderate her hatred has uncertain success, and the news confirms Frances's fear of a confrontation.
    • The feared confrontation occurs: Teresa arrives during Maria's abuse and violently attacks her.

  • Benjulia's cook mistakes his unusual kindness for courtship and hopes to marry him, encouraged by Pamela; his dismissal destroys that expectation.

  • Benjulia turns the cook's romantic expectations into a cruel joke; her dismissal provokes an armed outburst, which he disarms and finds intensely amusing, leaving her terrified and grieving.

  • Mool seeks Benjulia's help to clear Carmina's mother's reputation and learns that Benjulia's identification of her was disputed by another witness.

    • The maid's signed confession establishes that she impersonated her mistress in a fabricated sexual scandal; Mool obtains a copy and communicates the refutation to Benjulia.

  • Mool seeks to find Egisto Baccani, the witness who disputed the woman's identity, and intends to see Maria if he finds him.

    • Mool finds and interviews Baccani. He delegates the immediate correction before Maria to Benjulia, retaining his own intervention as a fallback.

  • Carmina seeks a way out of her aunt's authority, learning that guardianship lasts until twenty-one and that marriage would transfer authority to her husband.

    • Carmina considers remaining under Maria's authority until Ovid returns while living with Teresa, but confirmation of her guardian's legal authority destroys her hope of this compromise.

  • Carmina leaves without confiding the circumstances or purpose behind her questions about guardianship and marriage, despite Mool's attempt to gain her confidence.

    • Carmina's purpose remains undisclosed. Mool suspects a rash project, possibly elopement, but waits for an explanation and lets business displace his intention to write.
    • Maria learns Carmina's concealed intention to escape her care and join Ovid.

  • Carmina's kind treatment wins Marceline's friendship; Carmina accepts that Marceline will truthfully report her movements.

    • Carmina's kindness sustains Marceline's attachment; learning about the confrontation strengthens her loyalty, and she intends to help nurse Carmina.

  • Father Patrizio asks Carmina to restrain Teresa's hatred of Maria and report Teresa's arrival, Carmina's welfare and her marriage prospects.

  • Teresa intends to examine her late husband's papers with Carmina after reaching London.

    • After hurrying to Carmina without sorting the papers, Teresa opens her husband's packing-case alone as a distraction from threatened separation and discovers the poison.

  • Carmina's trust in Frances deepens despite Frances's jealousy, warning and departure; Frances leaves her ruby ring as a personal keepsake after previously proposing it as security for her loan.

    • Frances's voluntary departure and written farewell distress Carmina; affection now alternates with resentment and bitterness.
    • Carmina recognizes the generosity and sacrifice in Frances's withdrawal and seeks another meeting.
    • Carmina responds joyfully to Frances and confides her expectation of death; Frances commits herself to Carmina's service and overcomes her selfish conflict.
    • Frances promises a welcome after the honeymoon, and the naming of Carmina's daughter honours their continuing attachment.

  • Frances promises to write to Carmina when she considers herself more worthy of her.

  • Carmina seeks to trace Frances after her departure, but the absence of a forwarding address defeats her immediate attempt.

    • Carmina attempts renewed contact through a letter requesting a meeting, which Marceline leaves at the flower shop; Frances's receipt remains unconfirmed.
    • Although Teresa offers to inquire after Frances, Carmina abandons the inquiry.

  • Gallilee resolves to confront Maria if Carmina's correspondence is diverted again, after intervening to deliver Teresa's telegram.

  • Carmina writes to Ovid explaining her suffering and her reasons for leaving Maria's care, but Le Frank steals the letter before it can be posted.

    • The letter intended to explain Carmina's suffering to Ovid has instead been opened and read by Maria.
    • Le Frank reads the letter intended for Ovid and delivers it to Maria instead.
    • The retrospective account establishes that Ovid received Carmina's letter criticizing his mother.

  • Le Frank plans to open Carmina's letter to Ovid to obtain secrets and revenge, resealing and posting it if its contents prove unimportant.

    • Le Frank obtains the letter's secrets and passes the intercepted letter to Maria with his covering note.

  • Le Frank secretly possesses Carmina's outgoing letter to Ovid, having stolen it from the household post-basket and withdrawn undiscovered.

    • The stolen letter is now in Maria's possession, and its interception is disclosed to Carmina.

  • Baccani concealed the circumstances of the fraudulent impersonation to protect Mrs. Graywell, exposing the perpetrator to his club as a cheat without revealing the scandal; he now supplies Mool with the suppressed evidence.

  • Mool requires Benjulia to correct the disproved slander before Maria and commits to doing so himself if Benjulia refuses; Benjulia agrees and goes to await Maria.

    • Benjulia defers his private conversation with Maria to observe Carmina; his insistence that Carmina is Maria's niece fails to stop Maria repeating the slander.
    • Benjulia abandons personally correcting the slander before Maria and resolves to cease communication with her, sending the papers instead.

  • Le Frank seeks urgent private communication with Maria, leaving a sealed letter for immediate delivery when she returns.

    • Le Frank calls to request an interview with Maria, and Gallilee orders that she be informed.
    • Maria receives Le Frank privately and confirms receipt of his communication.

  • Benjulia secretly examines Carmina after detecting nervous symptoms, while she mistakes his clinical interest for favourable personal regard.

    • Benjulia stays to observe Carmina's nervous reaction, then assesses her acute condition and supports removal from the house.
    • Benjulia continues his clinical interest in Carmina, anticipates an instructive course under Null's treatment and promises further attention.

  • Zo awakens tenderness in Benjulia that temporarily outweighs his medical interest in Carmina; their uncertainty about affection leads him to reconsider the existence of love.

    • Benjulia turns toward Zo after his scientific defeat, seeks her unsuccessfully, keeps her copybook cover and leaves her his entire estate.

  • Benjulia's recognition of love raises his first doubts about whether his scientific life has fulfilled its possibilities, provoking anger at the unwelcome insight.

    • The destruction of Benjulia's scientific ambition deepens his crisis over the value of his life. He seeks Zo, preserves her keepsake and makes her his heir before his apparent suicide.

  • Zo hides her forbidden visit to Carmina from Maria by taking refuge in the bedroom.

    • Zo shares with Marceline what she witnessed while hidden in Carmina's bedroom, extending knowledge of her concealed presence to Marceline.

  • Maria confronts Carmina with her intercepted letter, accusing her of deceit; Carmina finds courage to challenge the violation.

  • Teresa attacks Maria after her slander of Carmina and her mother, strangling her into unconsciousness.

    • Maria revives but remains physically impaired; Teresa is warned of possible imprisonment and declares herself willing to face execution to protect Carmina.

  • Teresa seeks to rouse and protect Carmina after the confrontation leaves her unresponsive; Benjulia's medical qualification reassures her.

    • Carmina worsens after removal; Teresa remains beside her, reiterates her determination to protect her, and receives Benjulia's continuing medical support.
    • Carmina recognizes Teresa and takes comfort in her presence. Teresa summons medical help as sickness interrupts partial recovery, leaving her alternating between hope and despair.
    • Carmina worsens and cannot sleep. Teresa continues nursing and reading to her, and discovers that Le Frank's footsteps are disturbing her rest.
    • Carmina's deterioration and delusions distress Teresa, who persists in administering care and insists on summoning Benjulia; she learns that Carmina's fitness for removal cannot be predicted.
    • Carmina is recovering and can eat and sleep, but Le Frank's shriek alarms her; Teresa reassures her and requests quiet.
    • Teresa accepts Frances's help in trying to rouse Carmina and recognizes her as an affectionate ally.

  • Teresa intends to remove Carmina to her nearby lodgings; Gallilee supports the removal and Benjulia arranges it because remaining poses the greater risk.

    • Carmina is carried unconscious from the house to her refuge, although the move worsens her condition.

  • Gallilee openly resists Maria's attempt to recover control of Carmina, monitors her actions and orders the servants to conceal Carmina's refuge; his former solicitude toward his wife ends.

    • Gallilee's loss of confidence and respect for his wife is declared irrecoverable. He seeks legal support, commits to protecting Carmina and takes steps to remove his daughters despite Maria's objections.
    • Gallilee's continuing horror of Maria causes her lasting distress, reinforcing their estrangement.
    • Gallilee's estrangement from Maria becomes complete, and he acts independently by taking their daughters away.
    • Gallilee abandons open confrontation but continues resisting Maria through a covert departure with their daughters, aided by Marceline.
    • The marital rupture leads to a proposed amicable separation and Gallilee's purchase of a separate home.

  • Maria intends to have Carmina brought back as soon as she can go out, but physical weakness and Gallilee's obstruction prevent immediate action.

    • Maria discovers Carmina's address and turns to assistance and legal enforcement, committing to recover her once her serious illness permits removal.
    • Carmina remains too ill to move, but Maria's lawyers formally announce her intended return.
    • Maria's visit is expected within days. She defers immediate proceedings but explicitly reserves her authority, leaving separation from Teresa a continuing threat.
    • Maria's near recovery reduces her own physical impediment to reclaiming Carmina, but Carmina's fitness for removal remains uncertain; Teresa learns of Maria's recovery.
    • Maria intends to assert her authority at Teresa's lodgings during her first carriage outing, but cancels the immediate outing and subsequently suffers a manifest mental crisis.

  • Benjulia orders that Maria be refused admission to Carmina's refuge.

  • Benjulia promises continued care for Carmina while valuing the instructive progression of her illness and the research ideas her case supplies.

    • Benjulia attends Carmina, establishes the limits of her memory, forbids attempts to prompt it and promises another visit, while privately wishing to avoid further summons for a week.
    • Benjulia examines Carmina, identifies hysterical symptoms simulating paralysis and approves continued treatment, while treating her developing illness as an experimental case to record alongside animals.
    • Benjulia admits approving Null's treatment and defends his purpose as knowledge, provoking Ovid's threat over the possible loss of Carmina.
    • Benjulia acknowledges his neglect and accepts Ovid's assurance that Carmina is safe. His death ends the conflict between his promised care and his research interest in her illness.

  • Zo seeks to help Carmina recover by recalling Ovid and completes a letter urgently asking him to return.

    • Marceline posts Zo's appeal for Ovid's return and confirms its dispatch to her; his receipt and response remain unknown.
    • Zo's letter informs Ovid of Carmina's illness, and his impending return becomes known to Maria.

  • Zo conceals her appeal to Ovid from her father for fear he will tell Maria, and asks Ovid to keep her authorship secret.

    • The letter is posted without Gallilee discovering Zo's appeal: he mistakenly believes Marceline is corresponding with her sweetheart.
    • Zo's concealed appeal reaches Ovid, but its authorship becomes known to Frances and Gallilee; Gallilee welcomes her initiative.

  • Maria distrusts Le Frank and seeks to guard against him after realizing that Carmina's intercepted letter has disclosed her secrets to him, even as she accepts his assistance.

    • Despite her distrust, Maria discloses the assault, seeks Le Frank's advice and accepts his covert assistance.
    • Le Frank's proposed conspiracy offends Maria; she resolves to dismiss him and welcomes his prolonged incapacity.

  • Le Frank offers to watch Carmina to pursue his revenge and serve Maria.

    • Le Frank's offer develops into an agreed surveillance scheme at Carmina's refuge, directed particularly against Teresa.
    • Le Frank begins surveillance from his rented room, obtains the landlady's confidence, eavesdrops outside Teresa's door and sends Maria a written report.
    • Le Frank prepares further plans to discover Teresa's secrets the following day.
    • Maria intends to terminate his services, while his serious hand injuries make him unavailable for weeks or months.

  • Maria seeks replacement lawyers and dictates instructions to exclude Teresa, assert her guardianship and recover Carmina when medical removal becomes possible.

    • The lawyers prohibit Teresa from nursing Carmina and assert Maria's right to recover her; Teresa's signed submission reaches Maria.
    • Maria's written response refuses an agreement and reserves her guardianship powers; the lawyers' threat of separation reaches Teresa.
    • The replacement lawyer arrives, but Maria defers the consultation until tomorrow; her ensuing mental crisis further obstructs pursuit of her legal instructions.

  • Gallilee seeks Mool's advice about his family, reports Carmina's crisis and joins him in a commitment to protect her.

  • Mool and Gallilee seek Ovid's immediate return; Gallilee intends to ask the Quebec bankers to telegraph his address when known.

    • Gallilee and Mool decide to send their telegram to the bankers to secure communication with Ovid.
    • Ovid learns of Carmina's illness at Quebec and commits to an immediate return.
    • With Ovid already returning and a telegram planned for Queenstown, Mool seeks someone who can meet him personally.

  • Mool urges Gallilee to reconcile with his wife and persuade her to suspend her claims as Carmina's guardian; the proposal meets Gallilee's violent distress.

    • Complete estrangement and Maria's insistence on a humble apology obstruct reconciliation; the removal of the girls intensifies the breach.
    • Gallilee now attempts reconciliation, but Maria's fury requires restraint and his removal; her subsequent confinement prevents reconciliation.
    • Maria rejects family relations, and Mool replaces his reconciliation proposal with an offer to arrange separation.

  • Gallilee resolves to remove his daughters despite his wife's objections, with Mool's support. He writes to Lady Northlake requesting a stay and promises to send the girls when she invites them.

    • Gallilee carries parcels out beforehand and then removes both daughters, explaining by note that they need a change of air; their destination is not established.
    • Gallilee carries out the removal of his daughters through a covert departure. Their destination is undisclosed.
    • The account confirms that Gallilee carried out the clandestine removal with Mool's practical assistance, although the Northlakes' absence prevented immediate placement with them.
    • The retrospective account confirms that Gallilee removed both daughters from their mother's household.

  • Lady Northlake wants the daughters to visit their cousins in Scotland, while Maria has prevented their acceptance through plausible refusals.

  • Mool identifies a possible remedy in Carmina's father's will if Maria openly opposes the engagement, giving Gallilee hope of legal protection for Carmina.

  • Maria undertakes to pay the unsatisfactory publication account for Le Frank's song as she seeks his services.

  • Le Frank seeks to become Maria's privileged confidential friend by exploiting her difficulties.

    • His attempt at confidential collaboration instead earns Maria's lasting resentment and a decision to dismiss him.

  • Maria conceals the words that provoked Teresa's assault, leading Le Frank to attribute the quarrel to competing authority over Carmina.

  • Teresa formally submits to Maria's guardianship and petitions to remain with Carmina on any conditions.

    • Teresa's submission secures a temporary postponement of proceedings, but Maria refuses any agreement guaranteeing that Teresa may remain with Carmina.

  • Le Frank induces Maria to suspect that Teresa's submission may conceal an intention to poison her; Maria seeks protection against this unproved threat.

  • With Maria's agreement, Le Frank plans to take a bedroom at Teresa's lodging-house as cover for watching her and searching her room.

    • The landlady reports arrangements with a prospective lodger willing to wait for the upstairs bedroom, consistent with the planned lodging-house cover; these events do not explicitly identify him as Le Frank.
    • Le Frank occupies the bedroom and prepares to search for the powder, but Teresa remains with the wakeful Carmina; he abandons his attempts for the night without entering.
    • Le Frank uses his lodging to eavesdrop and search Teresa's sitting-room during her apparent absence, also trying the secured bedroom entrances.

  • Carmina seeks to conceal her illness from Ovid, forbidding Teresa to write and requesting silence from Gallilee and Mool.

    • Carmina's effort to conceal her illness fails: Ovid learns of it and Maria receives confirmation that he knows.
    • Zo's letter defeats Carmina's attempt to keep Ovid ignorant of her illness.
    • Ovid's return is confirmed, and Frances tells Carmina that he will arrive in little more than a week; her effort to keep her illness from prompting his return has failed.
    • Ovid returns to Carmina, learns of her condition and examines prescriptions, defeating her attempt to conceal her illness.

  • Teresa promises to convey Carmina's requests for silence but withholds them, leaving Carmina reassured while Gallilee and Mool proceed with their appeal to Ovid.

  • Threatened separation from Carmina tempts Teresa to use poison to defy Maria's authority; she struggles to resist and seeks divine help.

    • Teresa destroys the poison, relinquishing the means she had contemplated using against Maria.

  • Teresa resolves to destroy the poison and its label, but postpones burning them until night to avoid arousing suspicion.

    • The poison and its label have been burned; Le Frank finds the remaining canister empty.

  • Teresa hides the poison canister from the landlady. The landlady discovers and tastes its contents, mistakes the powder for medicine, and remains suspicious of Teresa's concealment.

    • The landlady discloses Teresa's concealed powder to Le Frank, who interprets it as poison and makes it the object of investigation.

  • Le Frank plans to steal a sample of Teresa's powder during her absence and have a chemist determine whether it is poison.

    • Le Frank reaches the canister but cannot obtain a sample because its contents have been destroyed; Teresa then crushes his fingers and he faints.

  • Le Frank proposes cultivating Teresa's acquaintance and, if she offers him tea, obtaining a supposedly poisoned drink to test and use against Teresa and Carmina with Ovid.

  • Le Frank falsely believes Carmina feigns illness to avoid him and conceals a secret that he is determined to discover.

  • The landlady undertakes to ask Le Frank to stop the footsteps that disturb Carmina's rest.

    • The landlady proposes repairing the creaking floor, but abandons having the carpenter attend that day when told Carmina is resting.

  • Teresa distrusts Le Frank and suspects that he has taken lodgings to spy on her.

    • Teresa confirms Le Frank's spying and search, becomes suspicious of his particular interest in the canister, and turns her anger into physical retaliation.

  • Teresa sets a trap for Le Frank by leaving the sitting-room accessible, securing Carmina's bedroom and feigning a prolonged absence; she detects his search and injures his hand after hearing him insult her.

    • The consequences of Teresa's trap are confirmed: Le Frank's wounds threaten the loss of two fingers.
    • The injury now attracts an accusation of deliberate violence; Teresa and the landlady prepare a joint written account of the incident.

  • Maria resolves to reimburse Le Frank discreetly in cash and dismiss him, regarding his proposed conspiracy as an unforgivable insult.

  • Maria's youthful attachment to a poor young man met maternal opposition; she threatened suicide when her mother forbade his visits.

  • Gallilee's removal of their daughters provokes Maria's distress and suspicion of an accomplice; she threatens police intervention and summons lawyers.

    • Gallilee's departure note is read and the summoned lawyer arrives, but Maria postpones consultation. Marceline admits helping the departure, although Maria's comprehension is unconfirmed.
    • The removal stands, while Maria responds by repudiating further family relations.

  • Ovid plans to return immediately by the Boston steamer to Liverpool, requesting gentle notice to Carmina and a telegram awaiting him at Queenstown.

    • The telegram announcing Ovid's return reaches Maria, who retains a copy; his arrival is not yet recorded.
    • Ovid has returned and is with Carmina.
    • Ovid has completed his return and reached Carmina.

  • Maria seeks to identify who informed Ovid of Carmina's illness after learning that he is returning.

  • Ovid loses trust in the elder family members whom he believes concealed Carmina's illness from him.

    • Zo's letter leads Ovid to infer Maria's culpability, and Frances confirms it; he refuses further particulars.

  • Maria develops an acute mental crisis that her servants initially misinterpret, before recognizing her need for medical intervention and restraint.

    • Maria's loss of reason is reported to Mool; the medical explanation connects it to her preceding injury and severe shock.
    • Maria's violent response confirms the necessity of restraint, and she is transferred to a private asylum.
    • Maria's mental condition improves beyond expectations under treatment.

  • Marceline helps Gallilee prepare his daughters' covert departure and promises temporary secrecy; she later discloses her assistance to Maria, whose comprehension is uncertain.

  • Marceline gives notice of leaving Maria's service and intends to help nurse Carmina.

  • Gallilee trusts Marceline as a disinterested helper and promises to replace any wages she loses through helping him, unaware that hostility toward Maria contributes to her assistance.

  • Mool summons Gallilee home by telegram because Maria is seriously ill.

    • Gallilee returns from Scotland and sees his wife.

  • Teresa's hostility toward Frances gives way to affection when she recognizes Frances's profound concern for Carmina.

  • Frances commits to caring for Carmina, requesting leave from her new employers or surrendering her employment if necessary.

    • Frances supports Carmina's care by preparing Ovid's accommodation, undertaking to inform him and protecting their privacy.

  • Frances leaves London to await Ovid at Queenstown, undertaking the personal preparation for his return that the existing arrangements lack.

    • Frances meets the returning Ovid, prepares accommodation and confirms his mother's responsibility before he joins Carmina.

  • Carmina expects to die and understands Ovid's approaching return as an opportunity to say farewell, despite the doctors' professed lack of alarm.

    • Carmina treats the reunion as a farewell, requesting arrangements for her remains and offering keepsakes; her pulse and breathing remain faint, without establishing that death is inevitable.

  • The Mool household supports Gallilee during Maria's confinement, providing sympathy and comfort.

  • Frances undertakes to explain Carmina's condition truthfully to Ovid, using the prescriptions to assist her account.

  • Gallilee plans to see Ovid before returning to Scotland and reward Zo for recalling him.

    • Gallilee returns to London and agrees to bring Zo to Carmina at Ovid's request; the proposed reward for Zo is not recorded as completed.

  • Frances and Teresa protect Ovid's time with Carmina by refusing interruptions and arranging to withdraw themselves.

  • Ovid undertakes to restore Carmina to life and health, remaining beside her and monitoring her pulse and breathing.

    • Ovid commits himself absolutely to saving Carmina, studies the manuscript and prepares treatment. Her continued ability to speak sustains his hope, but recovery remains unachieved.
    • Carmina's life is considered safe and her condition improves, but fatigue and a gap in her memory leave her recovery incomplete.
    • Carmina regains strength, but remains excessively sensitive; Ovid regulates the conversation and ends Zo's visit when Carmina needs rest.
    • Ovid considers Carmina's life safe and plans a carriage outing, indicating progress from saving her life toward restoring her health.
    • Carmina survives, marries, becomes a mother and returns to an established home with Ovid.

  • Carmina asks Ovid to convey her forgiveness to Maria and secure custody of her remains; Ovid promises the secluded burial she wishes for.

  • Carmina seeks to give Ovid her gold chain and parental portrait lockets as a farewell gift, but lacks the strength to fasten the chain on him.

  • Ovid's distress over Carmina makes him fear himself; prayer fails to console him, while walking brings temporary relief, and he resolves to die with her if he cannot save her.

    • Confidence that Carmina will survive lifts his oppressive anxiety, although her amnesia creates a new fear of serious injury that Frances's tests partly relieve.

  • Benjulia plans to question the landlady and chemist about Carmina's treatment after Ovid's threat revives his distrust.

    • The prescription copies dispel Benjulia's suspicion of concealed professional rivalry, and his intrusive questioning of the landlady ceases.

  • Ovid consults the physician's manuscript to guide Carmina's treatment, assimilates its relevant cases and prepares a treatment whose means will become available in a few hours.

    • Ovid overcomes the dispensing obstacle by obtaining conventional medicines and adopting private alterations to carry out the manuscript-based treatment.

  • Null resents his dismissal from Carmina's care and attempts to discredit Ovid by sending his recorded prescriptions to Benjulia.

  • Ovid conceals his manuscript-based treatment by ordering conventional prescriptions and altering the medicines privately; the recorded prescriptions unintentionally dispel Benjulia's suspicions.

  • Ovid seeks to determine the extent and seriousness of Carmina's memory loss; Frances's tests offer reassurance, and he arranges a visit from Zo for further testing.

    • Zo's visit confirms Carmina's retention of earlier memories. Ovid explains that the failure begins with her brain shock at the lodging-house and offers an assessment of its limits and likely duration.
    • The concluding account establishes that Carmina has lost her memory of the distressing past events.

  • Le Frank solicits subscriptions to his song on the grounds that his injury has destroyed his livelihood, and announces a collection visit.

  • Le Frank pursues Teresa before a magistrate over his disabling hand injury; Mool's defence exposes his intrusion, and Le Frank's threat results in his being bound over to keep the peace.

  • Mool intends to catch Le Frank under the Vagrant Act.

  • Zo plans to share her bedroom with Carmina and accompany her to her first dinner in Scotland.

  • Ovid preserves the dying Montreal physician's anonymity in obedience to his instruction, while acknowledging his discoveries.

  • Ovid asks Gallilee to take Zo away immediately and prevent her from ever seeing Benjulia again.

  • Ovid intends to take the recovering Carmina for a carriage drive.

  • Benjulia seeks Zo after his scientific defeat, but cannot discover her whereabouts and keeps her copybook cover as a personal keepsake.

  • After losing scientific priority, Benjulia apparently prepares to end his life: he anticipates death, dismisses his servants and takes his papers, medicine chest and oil into the laboratory. His death in the subsequent fire supports this interpretation, although the official verdict is misadventure.

  • Benjulia's footman seeks to discover what his master's alarming conduct means, secretly investigating and witnessing the laboratory animals' suffering.

  • Benjulia executes a witnessed will leaving his entire estate to Zo.

  • The footman's horror at the injured dog's suffering develops into an intention to rescue it; he finds it at the door and shelters it in the kitchen.

  • Ovid and Carmina marry and establish a family, becoming parents to a daughter named Frances at Ovid's suggestion.

  • Ovid commits to making Carmina happy and caring for her in their married life.

  • Frances privately explains that she cannot bear attending the wedding and asks Carmina not to tell Ovid; Carmina promises to explain her absence after their marriage.

  • Frances promises to welcome Carmina after the honeymoon.

  • Zo declares her intention to marry Donald.

  • Mool urges Gallilee to accept an amicable separation from Maria and offers to arrange it.

  • Maria repudiates family relations and dedicates her remaining life to intellectual society and science, finding happiness in her scientific receptions.

  • Ovid offers an unrestricted cheque to meet his mother's financial needs.

  • Teresa joins Ovid and Carmina's established household as housekeeper.

Places

London, Mediterranean, Italy, England, British Museum, The quiet square, Library at Fairfield Gardens, Scotland, Paris, Garden of the Square, Zoological Gardens, The Gardens, Canada, Rome, America, Australia, India, The Interspacial Regions, Liverpool, Hendon, Montreal, Quebec, Queenstown, The Channel Islands, Private asylum, Pall Mall