At her godmother’s funeral, Esther is approached by a man she has seen before at Miss Barbary’s house. Two years later, Miss Barbary has a stroke while Esther is reading to her from the Bible and dies not long after this. Miss Barbary bitterly tells Esther that she was “her mother’s disgrace.” Esther is distraught and does not understand what her Miss Barbary alludes to. Esther longs to be loved and accepted and, one day, on her birthday, she begs her godmother to tell her something of her past. Tulkinghorn continues to read and Lady Dedlock, who says she feels faint, retires to her room.Įsther Summerson is an orphan girl who has been raised by her godmother, Miss Barbary, a hard, pious woman who seems to dislike Esther and keeps her away from other children. Tulkinghorn, a reserved, steely man, explains that an anonymous law writer penned the document. Midway through, Lady Dedlock turns pale and asks who wrote the paper. Tulkinghorn, arrives and reads to them from some legal documents. She is considered a cold, haughty woman, but there is a rumor that she is not of noble birth and that Sir Leicester married her despite this. Lady Dedlock, the wife of aristocratic nobleman Sir Leicester Dedlock, is extremely bored in her fashionable London townhouse.
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