Individual reading Chapters 4-16

The narrator wants to have a meeting with Mrs Strickland after the conversation with Rose Waterford. The main character make friends with Mrs Stricland and visits her periodically. The hero of the story considers that the Stricklands are an ideal family. Afterwards he meets Rose Waterford who excitedly tells him that Charles Strickland has left his wife and she  hints that Strickland has run off with a young woman. The narrator  comes to see with Mrs Strickland who is upset with the happening events and in her turn she asks the hero of the story to go to Paris and  bring back her husband by any ways. The main character sees with Charles Strickland in Paris and knows that he has no any woman, he simply wants to be engaged in art and paint. After long talks and persuasions the narrator understands that Charles is an egoist and comes back to England without him. Mrs Strickland becomes angry with Mr Srickland after knowing that he has left her because of art and his passion to paint as he has no talent in it and his pictures make laugh everybody.