Book 1, Part 7, Chapters 34-36 Summary

In Book 1, Part 7, Chapter 34, Kemp has received the letter from Thurso; Kemp's spirits have continued to fall. Erasmus is still very involved in his own affairs, for Sarah's eighteenth birthday is approaching. He goes to visit Sarah and her mother, and when he returns home he finds his mother irritated because Mr. Kemp has not returned home yet. When it has become dark and Mr. Kemp has still not returned from work, Paris leaves to fetch him; he finds him hanged in his office. He returns home and tells his mother what he has found. Mrs. Kemp, who is usually very unstable, takes charge; she is able to acquire a death certificate stating that Mr. Kemp died from natural causes, so she may protect the Kemp name. At the funeral, Erasmus thinks back to the day that...