
You are Ethel May, fifteen, shortsighted, and set on walking supplies to a quarry family at Cocksmoor over your governess's objections. Norman, Flora, and the recovering sailor Alan Ernescliffe come along, and the visit turns from charity into an ambition: a school for children too far from town to ever attend one. Walking home, you find Market Stoneborough blocked by a crowd around a carriage accident, and no one will yet tell you whose carriage it was.
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