In Wanderer the German pianist Lenny appears on the doorstep of Pommier Chenin château at nightfall, beautiful and evasive, and the composer Hermin invites him inside. Lenny had had, for a long time, unrestricted access to Hermin’s apartment when they lived in Paris and Hermin was attending the conservatory. The past begins to fold into the present, and whatever was unsaid then, weighs upon the Pommier heavily. They spend little time bringing each other up to speed. Lenny has achieved a certain amount of fame as a pianist and Hermin has little to say about the intervening decade. Lenny is Hermin’s guest for the foreseeable future, and his reasons seem to be the mystery of Wanderer, except, we understand promptly that Lenny’s reasons are love and death. He languishes as Catherine languished for Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, and seeks solace in the wind-formed slopes as the latter had.