Dead Men's Shoes Volume 2 Chapter 13 - Joel Pilgrim

In which a lively dinner party at the How is enlivened by unexpected visitors and fleeting intimacies, casting a curious shadow over the festivities. Thereafter, the tale follows Sibyl and her uncle as they retreat to the quieter, more contemplative gloom of Lancaster Lodge, where unfamiliar company and unspoken tensions provoke a mood far removed from the gaiety just departed.