Brothers: who's who, timeline and places

Betty chooses Mark over the other boys and embraces him at the Admiral’s gathering.

Mark and Jim ask Billy to intervene in Archie’s attachment to a shop girl.

Mark breaks his arm during a drawn football match and earns cheers for his courage.

Mark collapses during his military medical examination and is declared unfit.

Mark studies painting in Paris, befriends Pynsent, and renews his love for Betty at the Hunt Ball.

Mark begins his first sermon strongly, but his returning stammer forces him from the pulpit.

Mark gives Archibald his unused sermon after hearing how powerfully his brother can deliver it.

Archibald wins influential praise for Mark’s sermon without fully explaining his brother’s contribution.

Doctors rule out marriage for Mark, and David Ross persuades him to seek recovery in Scotland.

Mark burns his manuscript and Archibald’s letter after learning of his brother’s engagement to Betty.

Mark becomes lost in snow on Ben Caryll and follows the Crask bell toward rescue.

Archibald marries Betty while concealing that Mark wrote the sermons that helped win her love.

Betty unexpectedly meets Mark during her honeymoon journey and learns that he has left the Church.

Mark settles near Weybridge to revise his novel and resumes charitable visits despite his lost faith.

Betty confides her marriage’s lack of conversation, and Mark resolves to protect her happiness.

Betty survives childbirth but loses her daughter, while Mark supports Archibald through his distress.

Mark secures publishing agreements, while Betty and Archibald quarrel over her gambling and his concern for reputation.

Betty discovers Mark’s authorship of Archibald’s sermons, confronts Mark, and confesses her enduring love.

David Ross challenges Mark’s plan to leave with Betty, but Mark goes to their meeting place.

Reading Mark’s Windsor sermon leads Betty to cancel their escape and confess to Archibald.

Mark writes Fenella and gains Sybil Perowne’s approval after she hears its first act.

Sybil promises to produce Mark’s play, but seeing Betty at Pynsent’s studio reveals her suffering.

News of Betty’s severe typhoid restores Mark’s love and draws him away from Sybil and his play.

Betty dies, Mark survives brain fever, and the brothers seek forgiveness before Mark becomes Archibald’s secretary and adviser.