About this story
You testify, tend both families, and when Mary's own marriage requires giving up her baby, you take the child in — naming her Mary Thorne and raising her as an orphaned niece, the mother never named. Years later, thirteen-year-old Mary starts asking why no portrait in the house is hers, and a prosperous, older Roger Scatcherd knocks asking what became of his sister's daughter.
How it opens
Sultry evening lay over the farmhouse where you and your younger brother lodged.
Henry ThorneThomas, medicine has made you solemn before age had the chance.
He smoked beside the yard gate while your last patient disappeared toward Barchester.
Roger ScatcherdWhere is Henry? He will answer tonight for what he did to Mary.
Choose
Put down the stick and tell me what accusation brought you here.
Henry, go inside while Roger speaks to me.