Villefort heads back to Madame de Saint-Meran's in the Place du Grand Cours and prepares for a trip to Paris. Mercedes stops by Villefort's home, and is offered no answers.
The Elmers talk to a superstitious captain. He talks about the death of a captain.
In an aristocratic residences of Marseilles, Monsieur de Villefort is celebrating his betrothal when he is interrupted by a servant informing him of a Bonapartist plot discovery, including the arrest of Edmond Dantes.
"Outside the rain upon the street,"
"Oh, de clouds is mighty heavy"
Foreword to the text.
"Out of the sunshine and out of the heat,"
Wen de colo’ed ban’ comes ma’chin’ down de street,
She sang, and I listened the whole song thro’.
Out of my heart, one day, I wrote a song,
A poem about the bond of friendship.
"A song is but a little thing,"
Villefort questions Dantes and makes a serious discovery.
A poem about blackbirds that get baked in a pie.
Thou art my life, by thee I live,
"Because I had loved so deeply,"
"A blue–bell springs upon the ledge,"
The poet wonders about the wind.
Oh, summer has clothed the earth
"The little bird sits in the nest and sings"
The Whip-Poor-Will sings a sad song throughout the night.
"At the golden gate of song"
This poem relays the feelings of what might have been and mistakes made in the past (in rhyme scheme).
"An old, worn harp that had been played"
"Oh, the poets may sing of their Lady Irenes,"