The Monastery Chapter 11

In which the quiet years at the Tower of Glendearg bring Father Eustace’s thoughtful visits and tutoring of the Glendinning children, wherein Edward’s scholarliness starkly contrasts with his brother Halbert’s fiery and restless spirit, set against the tender companionship of Mary Avenel. As Halbert’s impatience and jealousy swell, he ventures boldly to the haunted spring, invoking an eerie presence with a summoning rhyme beneath the lingering noonday sun.