Summary

When court returns to session, Andrew Bogle—Tichborne’s calm, plain-spoken servant—takes the stand in order to testify on behalf of the man claiming to be Tichborne. Eliza and Sarah continue to attend the trial proceedings with a fervent interest in them, and Eliza in particular starts to develop a fascination with Bogle. She is particularly drawn by the paradox that his cultural status appears to create: although many of the onlookers agree that Tichborne is a fraud, Bogle is almost universally beloved, and even those who do not believe in Tichborne seem convinced, somehow, that Bogle is telling the truth.

In the meantime, Eliza sinks further into recollection of the period of her life immediately following Frances’ death, when William began working on his most successful novel by far, a book called Jack Sheppard. Eliza feels as though William wrote the...