![]() ![]() All villagers attend Mass this day, less from a solid faith in the Trinity than as the sensible safeguard ritual brings no different than not “disobliging the gods that had sent them this life-saving water” from a rock spring. ![]() that ruler of their lives,” Sir Hugh and a capable Dame Margaret hold authority. Marion delivers eggs for Feast Day at the Hall by the Green. Twelve chapters stand for a twelve month cycle, March through February, like a twelve-panel peasant quilt, stitched on homespun cloth and appliquéd with twelve elemental scenes from Marion’s repetitive existence.Īs we meet her in March, the dregs of winter still hold the land captive. ![]() The location underscores the folk simplicity of the novel's structure and prose. Marion, wife of Peter Carpenter, lives "Down the Common" in the tiny, isolated village where she was born. ![]()
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