Summary 51-58

The narrator lived at the Hotel de la Fleur, and Mrs Johnson, the proprietress, had a story to tell about Strickland, who lived in Tahiti.Strickland reached Tahiti about six months after he left Marseilles. He had a few pounds in his pocket, and he took a small room in a native house outside the town. There he married Mrs Johnson's housemaid Ata.They lived in Ata's house, which stood about eight kilometres from the road that ran round the island. In the following chapters we got to know that Strickland and Ata had two babies. One of them had died, when Strickland caught the dead illness-lepra. Later Strickland himself had been blind and died from that desease. The time came for narrator's depature from Tahiti. A month later he was in London. He went to the trim little house on Campden Hill which Mrs Strickland then inhabited. Then the narrator told her what he had learnt about her husband in Tahiti.