Chapter 10 Summary

Beatrice and Giles leave and Maxim is in a hurry to take his wife on a walk. He asks a servant to bring one of the rain coats from the flower room for the author to wear as he does not want to wait for her to go upstairs and fetch her own. The young dog, Jasper, joins them on the walk.

The pair walks along the path and through the woods. As they come to a fork in the road Jasper follows one path while Maxim goes down another. He explains to his wife that the other path leads to the cove where they used to keep a boat. The author knows that Rebecca must have brought Jasper along to the cove, where she sailed.

The pair follows the path to a place called Happy Valley, which is a little clearing, carpeted...