In this section, Paul Faber’s life grows increasingly entangled with personal conflict, and his intellectual certainty begins to weaken. His relationships with patients, his emotional response to Miss Meredith, and his ideological clashes with Wingfold transform atheism from a logical stance into an existential struggle. Although faith is still rejected, suffering and responsibility complicate his former detachment. This part traces Faber’s gradual movement from confident denial toward inward questioning.
