Our Mutual Friend Book 2 Chapter 12 - More Birds of Prey

In which we make acquaintance with the rugged and quarrelsome Limehouse Hole, where Miss Pleasant Riderhood manages a modest pawnbroking shop and navigates her father’s turbulent presence alongside a mysterious seafaring visitor. The stranger’s chilling familiarity with a past crime unsettles the household, provoking tense exchanges filled with suspicion, veiled threats, and a promise of more revelations to come.