In which Felix, accompanied by Stanley, ventures into the local court to witness the preliminary justice meted out to a labourer implicated in a troublesome incident, observing with a sympathetic yet analytical eye the human faces and voices that animate this particular scene of the law. Afterwards, in a reflective mood beneath the vast English sky, he engages in candid discourse with an old countryman, whose steadfast love of the land and honest troubles serve to kindle within Felix a poignant meditation on the enduring bond between man and soil, and the trials that beset those who dwell upon it.