George Silverman struggles even to begin his explanation. He tells of a childhood in a Preston cellar, of being taken up by the hypocritical Brother Hawkyard and his chapel, of a scholarship to Cambridge and life as a clergyman, and of a love he believes he must give up because of the suspicions that have followed him since boyhood.
One of Dickens’s last and strangest stories, an intense study of a damaged conscience. Download the free EPUB.