In Chancery Part 2 Chapter 12 - Progress Of The Chase

In which the careful pursuit of truths in matters of the heart is likened to the patient weaving of a spider’s web, as Soames receives intelligence on his wife’s movements in Paris and resolves to confront his cousin Jolyon with wary civility. Through their measured dialogue in a St. James’s tearoom, questions of influence and freedom drift between them like curling smoke, leaving both men to contemplate the burdens of possession and the shadows of loneliness that cling unseen.