Chapter Thirty-Two Summary

Huw goes to work in the underground blacksmithing operation, and lonely Bron continues to languish from her loss. Beth decides Huw should live with Bronwen until she finds another husband, an idea to which Huw is absolutely opposed with his entire being. Huw moves in, but there is a strained distance between the two, after the impassioned moment they spent months earlier.

In Chapter Thirty-Three, Davy and Ianto are working to end the sliding scale, to which the older workers cling in order to make a living. Ianto is fired from the colliery and finds work in the ironworks at the furnaces. As a blacksmith, Huw notes that he finds steel to be spiritless compared with wood.

Huw discovers Mrs. Nicholas gossiping that Angharad is riding every day with Gruffydd. Huw tries to determine if it is wrong for a preacher...