About this story
The doctor who rides out from Tostes is young, careful, and grateful for the bandage you kept damp overnight. You play Emma Rouault, passing him linen, feeding him at the kitchen table, and noticing the wedding ring that clicks against his cup. He is due back in three days. At the gate he asks what your convent books promised was beyond this road.
Who you’ll meet
Charles Bovary, the country health officer who has ridden out through winter rain to splint a farmer's leg, and Monsieur Rouault, the reader's father, enduring him from the pillows.
How it opens
Winter rain had glazed the yard when a rider stopped beyond the pear trees.
Your father lay upstairs with a broken leg and very little patience.
Monsieur RouaultIf that is the doctor, hide the brandy before he prescribes against it.
Monsieur Bovary, from Tostes. I was told the fracture happened yesterday.
Choose
My father is upstairs; I will show you the way.
You have ridden far enough to need the fire first.