- Walter goes down for breakfast and meets Mrs. Vesey.
- Mrs. Vesey is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and she seems somewhat narcoleptic (prone to falling asleep). She's sweet though.
- After breakfast Marian takes Walter outside to meet Laura.
- Walter instantly falls in love and spends the rest of this chapter waxing poetic about the beautiful Laura.
- Think Romeo rambling on and on about Juliet and you get the gist of Walter's feelings for Laura.
- Later that evening Marian pulls Walter aside and says she's gone through her mom's old letters for some clue about the woman in white's identity.
- Marian reads Walter an old letter that Mrs. Fairlie wrote to her husband, Philip Fairlie (Laura's dad).
- A Mrs. Catherick was in town tending to an ill relative and enrolled her daughter Anne at the local school, run by Mrs. Fairlie.
- Anne is a bit slow but is very sweet and insists on wearing all white after Mrs. Fairlie tells her it looks nice on her.
- Anne also bears a resemblance to Laura.
- Marian and Walter decide the woman in white is most likely this mysterious Anne Catherick.