The second chapter of the Gabriel's Inferno adaptation, drawn from Sylvain Reynard's novels. Gabriel Emerson, a magnetic Dante scholar with a reputation and a past, finally understands who Julia Mitchell really is and what she once meant to him. His timing is poor. Julia has stopped waiting to be recognized and wants distance. What follows is the pull between them, staged as the story's central question: whether he can earn back a place in her life before someone else fills it. Talky, ardent, and aimed squarely at readers of the books.