The Rector

Carlingford had high garden walls, careful rents, and no Dissenters above the rank of a greengrocer. Nobody knows his views. You step into this one-chapter preview with Mr Proctor at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. The first call waited beyond the garden walls, where Carlingford's private certainty would meet an unfamiliar clergyman. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.

Chapters

1. The Rector: a stranger enters Carlingfordthe Wodehouse garden before the new Rector's first calls · 6 min

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