Chapter Seven continues along the narrative thread begun in the previous chapter.
In his conversation with a boy named Honor, Golden Gray learns that his presumed father, Mr. Henry, will soon return to the cabin, having been gone for several days. Waiting to meet his father, Golden Gray considers the naked, pregnant woman who is semi-conscious in one of the bedrooms, her body covered by a green dress. After this brief recapitulation, the narrator moves to a description of the wild woman and her environs, thirteen years after Golden Gray's journey. The woman is a harmless terror for the town, spending most of her time in a nearby cane filed though her intermittent brushes with village civilization transform her into a phantom. A man called Hunters Hunter is the one who first cared for her when she was pregnant.