About this story
Henchard sold her to a sailor for five guineas, and in Casterbridge the furmity woman confesses it before the bench he sits on. A skimmington ride of effigies stops under Lucetta's window; a will sealed with your mother's seal asks that no man remember him. Forty-five chapters carry the fair's price to a wedding and a compass pointing north.
How it opens
The road climbed to Weydon-Priors through stubble fields bleached by late summer.
Susan Newson walked beside you in black, carrying a sailor's compass wrapped in cloth.
Susan NewsonYour father Newson is lost at sea, and now we must find an older debt.
Choose
What debt could survive eighteen years?
Did you know someone at this fair?