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1. Alicia tries to attract Robert’s attention, but he remains indifferent and plans to leave Essex with George.
2. George expresses fears about his own death, while Alicia promises to tell Lady Audley about the planned departure.
3. Robert’s headache postpones their journey, and the friends visit Audley Court toward dusk.
4. Finding Lady Audley’s rooms locked, Alicia directs the men through a hidden passage into her dressing room.
5. Robert and George examine the portrait separately; George remains silent for fifteen minutes and then speaks hoarsely.
6. Robert rejects Alicia’s suggestion that the portrait reveals hidden feelings, and the visitors encounter the returning Lady Audley and Sir Michael.

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Alicia treats the portrait’s troubling expression as a possible truth about Lady Audley. Robert refuses this interpretation and insists on separating the painting from its subject.

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