i
- Plunkett recalls running into Hector on the roads while taking Maud to early morning Mass; the Comet nearly collided with his Land Rover.
- Plunkett got out of the car, ready to start a fight, but when he saw that it was Hector, he simply told him to be more careful with his driving.
- He calmed himself down and told Maud that the run-in was his fault.
ii
- Plunkett drops Maud off at church and then goes wandering about.
- He recalls his time in Lisbon at the beginning of their marriage, wondering where he could make a peaceful life for them.
- The narrator tells us that Plunkett's pace on this walk is the same as Midshipman Plunkett's was on the Dutch wharves centuries ago.
- While Maud is receiving Communion, Plunkett heads to the bakery to get a different kind of bread.
iii
- We get to see a playful, loving scene between Maud and Major Plunkett as they drive home. He tries to steal bread and she swats him away; he grabs her thigh.
- But it isn't all play: Maud is not herself that day and won't go into the garden because she smells death there. Which, you know, seems like a pretty good reason to avoid a place to us.