Chapter 2: November the Eighteenth

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​‌​​⁠It was on a Friday in this month of November that Owen Graye paid a visit to his sister.

His zealous integrity still retained for him the situation at Budmouth, and in order that there should be as little interruption as possible to his duties there, he had decided not to come to Knapwater till late in the afternoon, and to return to Budmouth by the first train the next morning, Miss Aldclyffe havi