Overview

Steerpike becomes the deputy of Barquentine, master of the castles rituals. He imprisons Clarice and Cora, faking their deaths, kills Nannie Slagg, and continues to pay court to Fuchsia. Titus begins his education at the castles dusty school, and Prunesquallors unmarried sister, Irma, falls in love with Professor Bellgrove, now the schools headmaster. As the years go by, Titus finds the castles rituals more and more hateful, focussing his hostility on Steerpike. He finds a forgotten passage, leading outside the castle walls. Venturing into the world outside for the first time, he meets the exiled Flay.