![]() ![]() They discuss Lizzie’s lack of education Charley worries that this might be embarrassing to him in the future as his own position advances, while Headstone points out that it might also make a man less willing to marry her. Charley explains that on the day his father’s body was found, Wrayburn came to break the news to Lizzie and he was annoyed to find him there when he was sent to return home. Headstone suggests that Wrayburn might be visiting Lizzie. Charley is startled when they pass a man who he recognizes as Wrayburn and wonders why he would be in this neighborhood, explaining to Headstone that he dislikes the lawyer. Lizzie now sees living with the child as a kind of restitution for the harm their father did, but Charley argues that they should try to move beyond the past and rise to better social positions.Īfter parting from Lizzie, Charley and Headstone walk home together. Lizzie explains that the doll’s dressmaker is the daughter of a drunken man who works at the same employer as she does, and that her grandfather, who is also an alcoholic, drowned and was found and robbed by their father. ![]() In order to have some private time to visit, the siblings walk at a bit of a distance, and Charley suggests she find somewhere else to live, complaining that he was embarrassed to bring Headstone to such a place. ![]() This is the first time Charley has come to visit her since in the past she has met with him somewhere near the school. A short time later, Lizzie arrives at the house and greets her brother and Mr. The strange child speaks in a very adult-way, explaining that she works as a dolls’ dressmaker, and seems to lead a lonely and isolated life. They are greeted by a strange child, who claims to be the head of the house, and tells them Lizzie will be returning shortly. She is working as a seamstress and stockroom keeper in order to provide for herself. Charley and Headstone arrive at a small house in a rundown neighborhood where Lizzie has been staying since the death of her father. From her favorite student, Mary Ann, who acts as a kind of personal spy, Miss Peecher learns they are going to see Charley’s sister. At his new school, Charley works closely with a teacher named Bradley Headstone, who expresses interest in going with Charley to meet his sister Lizzie and assess whether or not she is an appropriate person for Charley to continue to associate with.Īs Charley and Headstone depart, they encounter another teacher named Miss Peecher, who is secretly in love with Headstone. It is now autumn, six months after the death of Hexam, and a year since the discovery of John Harmon’s body. Although the school he was sent was poor quality, Charley Hexam showed enough intellectual promise to get transferred to a better school, some distance outside of London, where he is now studying with expectations of someday becoming a schoolmaster himself. ![]()
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