Summary

As William’s marriage to Sarah draws on, the household becomes more and more invested in the Tichborne trial. Sarah is a staunch believer that the man who claims to be Roger Tichborne is not a fraud, arguing rather contradictorily that it is difficult to get anywhere in the country as a poor person. William and his daughters, meanwhile, insist that the case is fraudulent and that the man claiming to be Tichborne is simply after money. They also denigrate one of his character witnesses, a Jamaican laborer named Andrew Bogle. In part because of William’s dismissal of Bogle as a credible witness, Eliza finds herself increasingly taking Sarah’s side in the debates about the Tichborne trial in spite of the tension that has long rested between them.

In the meantime, William continues to labor over what he has begun to...