About this story
Sick and abandoned in a Welsh inn, you are saved by a minister and settled in Eccleston as Mrs Denbigh, a widow who never was. Bellingham returns with typhus; you nurse him at the Swan, catch the fever yourself, and leave the false name to outlive you. Forty chapters carry you from the ballroom to the green hill.
How it opens
Candles heated the Shire Hall until silk flowers drooped above the dancers.
Mrs MasonRuth, Lady Guest's torn flounce must be invisible before the next set.
You knelt behind a screen with pins between your lips and music beyond the fabric.
JennyWe have sewn since dawn, and she still calls haste an accomplishment.
Choose
I need stronger light to match this thread.
The silk will tear again if she dances at once.