Time Passes Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Summary

A few years have passed and Mr. Bankes, Mr. Carmichael, Lily, Andrew and Prue have returned to the Ramsay's big house by the sea. Mr. Bankes comments that they must wait for the future to show and the characters extinguish the lights and head for their rooms for sleep. The night sets in like so many nights before it and the darkness and the wind creep along halls and poke into crevices and even blow some sand onto the floor. Nature has taken over the house during the years it has sat empty and the characters are the intruders now. The seasons have come and gone and the sea continues its restless motions.

In the years since the first section, Mrs. Ramsay died unexpectedly one night. The circumstances of her death are not clear to the reader...