MARTHA 1: In Olden Days.
Marth hears tales of far away places.
The largest wedding the district had seen for some time had gone well. The parish church was crowded with family, servants and villagers. The bishop himself had officiated at the union of Caroline, the twenty-year old, third daughter of the Earl and Lady Hawswater, to Sir William Laxby, a forty-three year old mine and railway tycoon, MP and widower. Caroline, after some bitter battles with her parents, had got her way and...