About this story
In Paris, Lady Howard has met the grandmother you have never seen, and Madame Duval says the girl has been kept from her proper family long enough. You play Evelina, raised by a country clergyman on careful fragments of your mother's history. He drafts a reply setting terms — where, whether, and what may not be said about her. A second letter, addressed to you, is still folded.
Who you’ll meet
Reverend Arthur Villars, the country guardian at Berry Hill, reading aloud a letter whose last lines he has covered with his own thumb.
How it opens
The post reached Berry Hill while April rain still shone on the orchard wall.
Reverend Arthur VillarsLady Howard has written from Howard Grove at unusual length.
Your guardian weighed the thick packet before breaking its dark green seal.
Reverend Arthur VillarsSit with me, my child; your name appears on the first page.
Choose
Please do not soften anything written about me.
Is Lady Howard asking me to visit her?
Has someone questioned your guardianship?