![]() ![]() Constantine to bribe her into telling Helena that their daughter Amelia, who has been missing for two years, is dead. Her husband, Anthony-called Vaughan-visits a “psychic” woman named Mrs. Next, Helena Vaughan, wife of a rich landowner, floats downstream in a rowboat she isn’t rowing as she is in a deep state of mourning. First, Robert Armstrong-called Armstrong-and his wife Bess, who worry about their eldest son Robin after finding a torn letter in his jacket pocket that reveals he has a daughter. The narrator then introduces three central parties. Rita stays the night to attend to the man and The Child while the regulars of the Swan spread the story. ![]() She goes to examine The Child’s body and finds her alive. The corpse is taken outside while Rita Sunday, the local nurse, attends to the badly injured man. Margot Ockwell, the innkeeper, Joe Bliss, her husband, and Jonathan, their son, organize the chaos that erupts. On the night of the winter solstice, an injured man carries the corpse of a child into the Swan inn. ![]() This guide uses the more appropriate term “nomads.” It also uses the term “river gypsies” (a term that has often been used as a slur for Roma people) to refer to a group of nomadic people. This guide uses the First Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press paperback edition circulated in July of 2019.Ĭontent Warning: This novel contains instances of child abuse, child death, kidnapping, sexual assault, domestic violence, and suicide. ![]()
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