1. What’s the effect of so many scenes being packed into this chapter?

2. Do the birds that the count accidentally hits while shooting suggest that innocent bystanders will be collateral damage as the count exacts his revenge?

3. Why does the count go through the trouble of having Albert learn about his father’s disgraceful past in such a roundabout way? Why not just have had Haydée reveal it to him directly?

4. We’ve never seen Albert this wound up… is he right to defend against this perceived stain upon his father’s honor? Or is filial piety blinding him to his father’s misdeeds?

Final sentence of chapter:

“As it happens, he was not wrong.”

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