In which Miss Dorcas Brandon visits the ailing Rachel Lake at Redman's Farm, bringing a warmth and tenderness that momentarily lifts the pall of Rachel’s fragile health and troubled spirit. Their converse, shadowed by unspoken fears and grudging promises, reveals the complexities of affection and estrangement within their kinship, whilst a shared vision of future seclusion offers a faint and flickering hope amidst their present sorrows.