About this story
The mayor of Verrieres wants Latin taught to his sons, and your Latin is the only thing about you worth money. You play Julien Sorel, who bargains for a black suit before he will go. At the gate the mayor calls you a boy; his wife, expecting a harsh old cleric, asks whether you have come looking for work, then asks what you truly fear in her house.
Who you’ll meet
Madame de Renal, the mayor's wife stopped mid-step at her own garden door by a tutor she was not expecting, with her husband Monsieur de Renal testing the wet paint on his gate a body's width of empty gravel away.
How it opens
Old SorelThe blade falls whether a dreamer attends to it or not.
Old SorelYour brothers keep the timber moving while you hide above them.
Old SorelThe river pays no wages for reading, Julien.
You sat astride a roof beam, reading a book above the din.
Old SorelJulien! Books will not move that timber or feed this house.
His second shout arrived with a pole striking the beam beside your boot.