Part Two compresses ten years into about twenty pages. She gets out of it by smiling at him and telling him that he was right – the weather will be bad tomorrow and they will not be able to visit the Lighthouse. They make small talk and she knows he wants her to say, 'I love you,' though she refuses. She tucks her youngest two children into bed and then sits with her husband as he reads. She wishes she could freeze the moment but knows it is already part of the past.

Bankes has stayed for dinner and Paul’s proposal to Minta has been accepted. The food is delicious she is beautiful Mr.

She hopes that Paul has proposed to Minta. Ramsay does calm her husband, and then starts worrying about Paul (the Ramsays’ guest), Minta (another guest), Nancy Ramsay (daughter), and Andrew (son), who are not yet back from the beach. Ramsay walks along the lawn and worries about mortality and his legacy to humankind, and then pesters Mrs. William Bankes, who is also visiting the Ramsays, comes up to Lily and the two of them go for a walk. Ramsay has the fleeting thought that Lily will have a hard time getting married, but she likes Lily anyway and decides that Lily should marry William Bankes, an old friend of Mr. Although, we gather she’s a family friend.) Mrs. (If you’re wondering who Lily is, we are in the same boat. Ramsay remembers that she must keep her head down for Lily Briscoe’s painting. Later, as she sits in a window and reads a fairy tale to James, Mrs. Tansley is in love with the much older, but still beautiful, Mrs. Tansley and asks him to accompany her into town. He’s a very socially awkward young man who is obsessed with his dissertation. Ramsay’s view that the weather will be rotten. Ramsay’s visiting students, chimes in and supports Mr. Ramsay is adamant that the weather will be awful. Ramsay, holds out hope that the weather will be good tomorrow so they can go to the Lighthouse, but Mr. The novel begins with James Ramsay, age six, wanting to go to the Lighthouse that’s across the bay from the Ramsays’ summer home. It’s set at the Ramsay’s summer home, where the Ramsays and their eight children are entertaining a number of friends and colleagues. Part One spans approximately seven hours and takes up more than half the book.

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf