About this story
A dead man's washed shirt and a strip of blue wool stay in the drawer while the mill starves. Shirley Keeldar brings her capital to Fieldhead, Caroline Helstone nurses you after the ball under your shoulder, and Caroline's hidden mother steps out of a housekeeper's silence. Forty chapters carry Hollow's Mill from broken frames to full work.
How it opens
Three curates consumed Mrs Gale's supper while Yorkshire wind worried the shutters.
MaloneAnother plate, and I may forgive Briarfield for possessing no decent society.
DonneThe district would improve if manufacturers remembered the claims of the Church.
Sweeting listened for the servant because argument never delayed his appetite.
Choose
Have you heard wagons on the mill road?
Mr Helstone expects you back inside.