About this story
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.
How it opens
Saturday released the older May children from lessons, but you arrived before Miss Winter with a request already prepared.
You were Ethel May, fifteen, impatient, shortsighted, and determined to carry supplies to a quarryman's family at Cocksmoor.
Flora MayWe have clothes, tea, bacon, arrowroot, and a blanket ready for the wife and newborn twins.
Miss WinterCocksmoor is far, the tracks are rough, and those quarry huts are not a place for girls alone.
Miss WinterNorman may join us after dinner, and the donkey can carry both blanket and any tired traveler.
Miss WinterYour mother agreed only if I judged the road safe and the party properly accompanied.