The Doctor's Family - Chapter 9

'The Doctor’s Family' (1861) by Scottish author Margaret Oliphant is a beautifully observed Victorian novella, set in the fictional English town of Carlingford, a little out from London.

In Chapter Nine, ordinary domestic life continues quietly through the night, until an unexpected absence disturbs the fragile calm of the household. As dawn breaks, Nettie sets out alone into the cold morning to search for what has not returned. What she finds before the day is fully awake ends one troubled story forever — and places a heavy new burden silently into her hands.

A stark, powerful chapter of endurance, duty and sudden, irreversible change...

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Big turn of events. I want to say a positive turn but I guess that would be cruel