Under the Greenwood Tree Part 3 Chapter 3: A Confession

In which a dewy morning in late summer witnesses Fancy Day and her companion Susan embroiled in quiet confidences beneath laden apple boughs, as Fancy’s heart is troubled by jealousy and notions of rivalry with an attractive visitor from a gipsy gathering. The delicate threads of her affection for Dick Dewy are strained by her own misgivings and a confession of a near matrimonial prospect that sets her spirits trembling in a world where love and social reckonings intermingle with the gentle pursuits of country life.