The Black Robe Book the Third Chapter 4

In which Mr. Winterfield visits Mr. Romayne to admire a modest collection of cherished landscape paintings, and unexpectedly encounters Mrs. Romayne, whose frail health does not obscure the tension between her and Winterfield. A delicate and charged exchange follows, shadowed by past misunderstandings and guarded mistrust, while Father Benwell’s absence from these proceedings leaves his influence at large and quiet.