![]() He is still convalescing from a dangerous illness, but nobly allows her to sleep in his hut during stormy weather, whilst he insists on sleeping outside. Charmond and returns to Little Hintock to try to reconcile with his wife, she flees the house and turns to Giles for help. Melbury tries to procure a divorce for his daughter so she can marry Giles after all, but in vain. Charmond, takes to treating Grace coldly, and finally deserts her one night after he accidentally reveals his true character to his father-in-law. Soon, however, Fitzpiers begins an affair with a rich widow named Mrs. ![]() After the honeymoon, the couple take up residence in an unused wing of Melbury's house. Grace has more awe than love for Fitzpiers, but marries him nonetheless. When the new doctor – a well-born and handsome young man named Edred Fitzpiers – takes an interest in Grace, her father does all he can to make Grace forget Giles, and to encourage what he sees as a brilliant match. ![]() Although they have been informally betrothed for some time, her father has made financial sacrifices to give his adored only child a superior education and no longer considers Giles good enough for her. The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. ![]()
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