After Dark Prologue to the Fourth Story

In which a portrait-painter recounts a comic yet perilous episode involving a fractious bull named “Thunder and Lightning,” leading to an unexpected day of fishing and a visit to the venerable, reclusive Miss Welwyn at Glenwith Grange, whose home exudes an atmosphere of melancholy and withdrawal from the modern world. The painter’s keen observations and growing curiosity are met with thoughtful silence as his companion prepares to reveal an extraordinary tale connected to the lady and the mysterious little girl he saw.