About this story
Milton makes nothing but money, and Margaret arrives with a full set of certainties, which the first master she meets — self-made, unmarried, watching her — begins to take personally. Gaskell gave the industrial north a love story in which the arguments are the courtship. You are Margaret Hale, and you are on the doorstep when the mob comes.
Who you’ll meet
single figure
How it opens
Late summer dusk gathered behind the tall windows of Harley Street.
Wedding silks, tissue paper, and open boxes occupied every level surface.
Mrs ShawEdith must show the Indian shawls before the gentlemen come up.
She has slept through the final arrangements.
Mrs ShawThen kindness requires someone else to fetch them.
Choose
Edith, your mother requires the shawls.
Captain Lennox may arrive before you wake.
The blue ribbons have defeated you.