<P> The setting shifts to the present day . Hannah Jarvis is researching the house, the garden, and specifically the hermit, for a study of hermits and the Romantic imagination . Bernard Nightingale enters with Chloe Coverly; he conceals his identity from Hannah, as he had given Hannah's last book a poor review . Chloe's brother, Valentine, is gathering data on the population biology of the grouse in the surrounding grounds, using the house's "game books". When Chloe accidentally reveals Bernard's identity, Hannah reacts angrily; but she agrees to share her research material, which enables him to propose the theory that one of the 1809 inhabitants, Ezra Chater, was killed in a duel by Lord Byron . Bernard notes that records of Chater the poet disappeared after 1809, and the only other Chater of record is a botanist . </P> <P> The third scene returns to the earlier time frame; Septimus is again tutoring Thomasina, this time in translating Latin . Again their focus diverts, this time to the destruction of the Alexandrian Library, which upsets Thomasina . She mourns the loss of the knowledge stored there, and Septimus responds that all that was lost will eventually turn up again . They are again interrupted by Chater, who succeeds in challenging Septimus to the duel, having learned (from Lord Byron off - stage) that Septimus wrote the damning review . </P> <P> Hannah rediscovers Thomasina's primer containing her ideas on iteration and chaos theory; this recalls Septimus' assertion that what was lost is eventually rediscovered . Valentine reacts with interest to the notes, as his own research centres on similar concepts . </P> <P> Still in the present, Bernard gives Hannah, Valentine, and Chloe a preview of his lecture theorising that Lord Byron shot and killed Chater in a duel . When Hannah and Valentine challenge his logic, Bernard launches into a diatribe about the irrelevance of science, then departs for his lecture (and a promotional media appearance) in London . Hannah begins to suspect that the hermit of Sidley Park--who was reportedly obsessed with algebraic computations about the heat death of the universe, the theory suggested in Thomasina's diagram--could have been Septimus . </P>

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