
An urgent invitation to join a yacht reached you after the final train, leaving a sixty-mile bicycle ride as the surest route. Bob sails Thursday but neglected to say morning or evening; haste must compensate for his precision. You step into this one-chapter preview with Bob Mabberly at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. The river widened ahead while the first unresolved event of the journey remained behind. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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