The second volume continues the narrative at Penwyn Manor as an outsider arrives, listens to the housekeeper recount the heir’s death, and studies family portraits and memories. It follows small journeys to neighboring farms and a coastal village, bringing the visitor into contact with servants and local figures, including Elspeth. Detailed domestic scenes and landscape descriptions underscore tensions of memory, duty, and constrained social life, while quiet interactions and revelations about the household’s past set the stage for unfolding consequences.