On a foggy May morning in the 1840s, Margery, a milkmaid in the valley of the Exe, meets a melancholy foreign Baron and saves him from despair. He repays her with a single wish, and her innocent longing to attend a ball draws her into a secret friendship that unsettles her engagement to the lime-burner Jim.
A light, fairy-tale novella from Hardy’s Wessex, with the sting of his larger novels. Download the free EPUB.