
You play Tess Durbeyfield, the one red ribbon in a line of white dresses at the May dance in Marlott. A stranger leaves his two brothers on the road, steps in for a single figure, and the music stops before the line brings him opposite you. Meanwhile your father has met a parson on the road and come home in a borrowed carriage announcing descent from ancient knights — and the beehives still have to reach market before morning.
Read Tess of the d'Urbervilles