- Bradley pauses from his narrative to address a few words to his "dear friend" and editor, P. Loxias. He reflects on the nature of human suffering.
- As Bradley continues to lie on his bed, he attempts to get his thoughts and feelings under control as he listens to Francis puttering around in the kitchen.
- Bradley transcribes a number of letters rather than describing the events of the days that followed.
- Through a letter from him to Julian, a letter from him to Christian, a letter from him to Arnold, and a letter from Christian to him, we can gather that Bradley still has no idea where Julian really is.
- Three days after Priscilla's funeral, Rachel comes to visit Bradley at his apartment. She won't tell him much about Julian, but she insists that Julian is keeping silent and staying away of her own free will.
- Most importantly, Rachel tells Bradley that his little liaison with Julian is really and truly over.
- Bradley doesn't believe her, but he's horrified to learn that Rachel told Julian all about her own affair with Bradley.
- Rachel rubs salt in Bradley's wounds by telling him that she and Arnold have been laughing at him all this time, and that her own feelings for Bradley were inconsequential—just like Arnold's feelings for Christian.
- According to Rachel, she and Arnold have a bond that can never be broken, and their little flings and dalliances with other people just give them more to talk about together.
- Bradley is baffled by this perspective, and he retrieves the letter that Arnold wrote to him before the affair with Julian blew up—that one in which Arnold confesses his love for Christian and asks Bradley to break the news to Rachel.
- Bradley starts to re-read the letter—just to reassure himself that he didn't imagine it (or so he says)—but when the doorbell rings he throws it onto the table in front of Rachel.
- A parcel delivery person is at the door, with a large, heavy box for Bradley.
- After seeing it inside and shutting the door, Bradley returns to the sitting room and finds Rachel reading Arnold's letter.
- Rachel's furious, and she lashes out at Bradley for being a spiteful, destructive person. Eventually, she runs screaming from the house.
- After Rachel leaves, Francis comes inside and opens the package that the parcel delivery person delivered. Inside it are the complete works of Arnold Baffin.
- When Bradley starts to rip the books to pieces, Francis gleefully joins in.
- Later that day, Bradley wakes up after having fainted in his apartment.
- Francis is still there looking after him, and the two men talk about the love and pain that each of them has known in their lives.
- The next morning, Francis brings a letter in to Bradley. It's from Julian, and Bradley reads it hungrily.
- Although the letter states plainly that Julian is in France with her father, and although it suggests that their relationship really is over for good, Bradley is convinced that the whole thing is in code and that Julian is really being held prisoner in Italy.
- Bradley shares his view with Francis, and as Bradley starts making rapid plans to go to Italy and rescue Julian, Francis offers to help.
- Bradley sends Francis out to do some shopping for the trip and collect whatever information he can, and then he loafs around the apartment in a daze.
- When the telephone rings later, Bradley wakes up to find himself lying on the sitting room floor, clutching Julian's letter and a poem by Dante Alighieri.
- To Bradley's intense disappointment, it's Rachel on the phone. She asks him to come over immediately, but she doesn't tell him why. All she'll tell him is that it's something to do with Julian.
- When Bradley arrives at the Baffin home, Rachel lets him in. She looks terrible, but not as terrible as Arnold looks when Bradley finds him lying dead in the drawing room with his head bashed in.
- Bradley can see clearly that Rachel has killed Arnold with a poker—the very same poker that smashed Rachel in the head in one of the novel's opening scenes.
- Bradley tells Rachel that he'll call the doctor and the police, and, thinking that he might be able to help her cover up the murder, he takes the poker with him as he heads into the kitchen.
- He also picks up a crumpled piece of paper that was lying on the floor, and he sees that it's the letter in which Arnold confessed his love for Christian.
- In the kitchen, Bradley burns the letter and washes the poker, then puts the poker away in a cupboard.
- After that, Bradley calls the hospital and the police.
- When the police arrive and ask him what's happened, Bradley tells them to speak to Rachel.
- Soon, the police come back out and load Bradley into a police car, then take him to a station.
- At the station, the police interrogate Bradley and insist that he tell them why he killed Arnold Baffin.
- Exeunt, pursued by a bear. (Just kidding, folks! There are no bears in The Black Prince, but this is the end of Bradley's story.)