The Professor Chapter XX

In which the narrator, beleaguered by strained relations and unsteady livelihood, endures the uneasy domestic turbulence stirred by the impending union of his employer with the directress, amidst the bitter revelations of jealousy and falsehoods that chill their interactions. Resolute to preserve his integrity and shun the moral perils that threaten to ensnare him, he contemplates a difficult yet necessary departure from the house that has become his reluctant prison.