Part 1: Pages 95-121 Summary

17 October 1874. Miss Prior has a discussion with her family, a neighbor, and her sister's fiancé about Selina Dawes. During this discussion, Miss Prior argues for Selina's innocence, but Stephen and the others feel that if Selina was convicted in court, she must clearly be guilty. Stephen then suggests that if Selina were innocent, perhaps she was protecting a lover who had committed the crime, but Miss Prior insists this could not be possible because Selina receives no mail or visitors.

25 November 1872. Selina writes in her diary that she had a fight with her landlord's wife that ended with food flying at the dinner table.

21 October 1874. Miss Prior sees the prison laundry before she visits some of the prisoners. The first woman is Osborne, who argues with Miss Prior when she refuses to talk to her about world news. The...