
Your mother's cottage faced the little green and wooden bridge where Bragg's End joined the road to Baslehurst. Dorothea is coming from Baslehurst, Rachel, and trouble generally arrives before she removes her bonnet. You step into this one-chapter preview with Luke Rowan at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. The return post was approaching Baslehurst while your acceptance remained unwritten and Dorothea's threat to leave the cottage remained alive. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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