The Seduction Complete — Madame Bovary

Six weeks pass after the agricultural show and Rodolphe does not return. He waits on purpose, hoping Emma will want him more. When he finally walks into her dim room she turns pale and his plan works.

He says he has been watching her house at night. Emma sobs at his romantic words. Charles comes home and is flattered when Rodolphe calls him doctor. Rodolphe offers horses for riding. Charles orders Emma a riding habit and writes to invite him back. The next day Rodolphe arrives in a velvet coat with two saddle horses while Homais shouts advice from the doorstep.

They ride through October fog into the forest. He removes ferns from her stirrup and rides close beside her. At a pool in the woods she finally gives herself up to him. That evening Charles talks about buying an old horse while Emma sits silently between two candles. She looks in the mirror and whispers that she has a lover. They begin meeting in a woodshed and hiding letters in a crack in the garden wall. Emma starts sneaking to his house at dawn through muddy fields until Rodolphe frowns and tells her she is taking too many risks.