The Greshams of Greshamsbury are deep in debt, and young Frank Gresham is told he must marry a fortune. Instead he loves Mary Thorne, niece of the village doctor and of uncertain birth. Doctor Thorne guards a secret that ties Mary to the hard-drinking railway contractor Sir Roger Scatcherd and his wayward son Louis.
The third Barsetshire novel, warm and funny about money, rank and the English county. Download the free EPUB.