Chapter 1

Hard as it was to bid farewell to Altrincham, where she had lived all but five of her two and twenty years, it was harder still for Emilina Brook to part from her mother, her father, and her siblings at the Unicorn Inn. But the stage coach bound for Nottingham waited on no extended leave-taking and hesitated for no qualms. Emilina mounted the step with the help of the guard and had barely settled in her seat before the coach set off, inexorably, into the future. She could not even wave to her family. The last seat available facing the horses was a middle one.

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