- The sun is getting lower in the sky now, and the waves have receded further from the beach. There are also clouds blocking the sun, making the rocks on the shore seem black.
- Birds are flying around, and one goes and perches on a stake, opening and shutting its wings.
- Some petals have fallen off flowers into the garden, where wind intermittently blows through. Some flowers get blown over and remain bent.
- Afternoon sun spreads over the fields, making shadows bluer and the corn redder. The narrator describes the field, the animals within it, and the clouds rolling over above, as well as a distant horizon that includes a windowpane and a steeple.
- Now the narrator describes a window and a room, presumably the same ones mentioned previously. The objects within the room are being browned and reddened by the afternoon light.
- The narrator asserts that, in this moment, "all . . . bent in uncertainty" (7a.6).