The Dream Chapter the Fourth - The Widow Smith Moves to London Parts 8 and 9

In which a young man’s earnest quest for knowledge and self-improvement struggles against the strictures and misunderstandings of a prudish and suspicious household, while his first steps into the world of work offer a glimpse of a London both ancient and modern. The curious blend of old-world mysticism and emerging science colours his experience in a chemist’s shop, where he finds his mind opening to the wonders of the universe amid the faded bottles and whispered transactions of an age on the cusp of change.