The dean goes on with a description (all of it illustrated by the two dogs) of how they enjoyed eating the rabbit, "fur, guts, and bones" and then found a stream, and rolled in the ground beside it, and had a nap. Then the full moon came up, and they tried to catch it but failed, so they barked at it and told them one day they'd get it. Then they turned toward home.
Peter O'Toole says, "you knew the way home?" "Oh yes, you just turn toward home, and go there."
Then it shows them running through the meadow where they chased the sheep.
At some point in there it shows a young man on a horse with a gun, alone in a field. This is O'Toole's son in the Boer War.
And D.Spanley says, "Then the most extraordinary thing happened. One minute I was there, and the next, I wasn't. Maybe it was a dream I woke up from."
It shows the sheep farmer is waiting for them with a gun. The two dogs stop, you see the gun go off.
Peter O'Toole: "Was there any pain?" (with a very concerned experession)
"No, no pain."
We then see his son lying on the ground by his horse.
O'Toole leaves the room, saying he is put to mind of his son. He goes into the hall, the cook comes and he weeps in her arms, saying "He was shot." They go into the parlor and he holds a photo of his two boys.
Dean Spanley and Wrather leave together, with Wrather's arm around D.S. D.S. repeats he thinks he knows Wrather from somewhere, then Wrather's saying maybe S. would like to go with him to Marrakesh to look at some rugs.
O'Toole and his son have an emotional embrace in the hall. It's clear the things D.S. said have lead O'Toole to to come to terms with his grief, and opened up the dam he had built around his feelings ever since he lost Wag.
Next scene is the son coming back for a visit, to find his father has had Wrather get him a spaniel like Wag, and he's playing with it in the garden. He and his son exchange a meaningful gaze.
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