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Delayed by the missing 33 pages from the middle, I now pick up the story thanks to Project Gutenberg.
I find myself confused by the closing paragraphs of Chapter XIX. Did Marty South really mistake Fitzpiers for Giles Winterborne? I find it difficult to believe she did. Little Hintock is too small a community for her to not know everyone who lives there. Oh! But I see now, scanning back over what I have not read in months, that it was then evening and quite dark and Fitzpiers might have registered as a mere presence for Miss South to assume an identity for.
Sense is now made and Miss Melbury gets to make her ominous statement with only the fortuitous happenstance of Marty South's appearance to provoke it.
Oddly, The Woodlanders was not available in Borders when I looked a few days ago.
I find myself confused by the closing paragraphs of Chapter XIX. Did Marty South really mistake Fitzpiers for Giles Winterborne? I find it difficult to believe she did. Little Hintock is too small a community for her to not know everyone who lives there. Oh! But I see now, scanning back over what I have not read in months, that it was then evening and quite dark and Fitzpiers might have registered as a mere presence for Miss South to assume an identity for.
Sense is now made and Miss Melbury gets to make her ominous statement with only the fortuitous happenstance of Marty South's appearance to provoke it.
Oddly, The Woodlanders was not available in Borders when I looked a few days ago.
