i
- Major Plunkett acknowledges the plight of the indigenous people of the island and their admirable qualities; he notes how these qualities run up against white expectations, especially in the person of Helen.
- Helen was fastidious, taking pride in her keeping of his house—but perhaps too much, acting as if it were her own.
- More here about the yellow dress, which Maud claims was stolen and Helen claims was a gift.
- Plunkett wants to empower Helen and her island by giving it a history, and so he begins to research.
ii
- Major Plunkett's new obsession to create a history for Helen and her island makes Maud wonder if the wound in his head is acting up again.
- He's staying in and shuffling about the house, and she feels more alone than ever and withdraws into her needlepoint.
iii
- Maud contemplates her house and life with Dennis on the island, thinking about how she romanticized the place before she actually saw it.
- As she speaks of household life, she comments that Helen was a great loss to them.
- She also mentions seeing the name painted on Achille's canoe—In God We Troust—and smiling at it.