Our Mutual Friend Book 2 Chapter 16 - An Anniversary Occasion

In which we partake of a gathering, quaintly mingled with the complexity of social intercourse and the delicate observances of an anniversary breakfast, where the conspicuous and the obscure intermingle with lively conversation and the occasional shadow of concern. Amidst this assemblage, the gentle Mr Twemlow finds himself entrusted with a secret of poignant consequence, compelling him towards a duty both perplexing and grave in its nature.