Henry Dunbar Chapter XXX - Stopped Upon The Way

In which Henry Dunbar, a man burdened with purpose and restless to pursue his journey abroad, is grievously delayed by a grievous railway accident amidst a bleak wintry landscape. Convalescing in the care of a surgeon far from home, he finds himself prisoners to enforced patience and the slow healing of a broken limb, his persistent longing to resume his travels tempered by the merciless passage of time.