Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter Summary & Analysis - Dr. Jekyll was Quite at Ease Summary

Dr. Jekyll was Quite at Ease Summary

Two weeks later, fortune finds Utterson at a dinner party thrown by Dr. Jekyll. After the other guests have left, Utterson stays behind, taking a place in front of the fire opposite his old friend, a large, stylish man in his fifties with a kind and capable face.

Utterson brings up the subject of the will, but Jekyll skillfully turns the topic to Lanyon, saying that he never saw a man so distressed as Utterson as he is about that will, except perhaps for Lanyon at what Lanyon called Jekyll's "scientific heresies." Jekyll acknowledges that Lanyon is a good man, and he always means to see more of him; nevertheless, he's still disappointed in Lanyon's ignorance.

Refusing to be deterred, Utterson reminds Jekyll that he never approved of the will, and that he's lately been learning something of young Hyde. At that, Jekyll pales. He tells Utterson that he's in...
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