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The story in 11 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   Small accidents lead Ovid astray

   Ovid Vere, a surgeon of thirty-one, has driven his brain too hard and must rest. A friend's yacht waits to carry him to the Mediterranean. Still, he cannot sit idle, so he sets out to check a single fact for an unfinished medical chapter.

   Collins fills the walk with trifles. A bargain lot of lace for his mother goes badly. A foul smell drives him into Covent Garden, where he gives strawberries to a ragged girl carrying a large baby. Then he takes a forgotten prescription to a patient near the British Museum.

   Each detour looks pointless, and each is a link in a chain. Ovid never boards the yacht. Half dreaming, he steps aside for two women in mourning, and the girl's eyes meet his for one instant. He follows them into a concert hall.

   Small, unplanned steps can lead a person to the one meeting that changes a life.

2. 2

   Carmina and Teresa arrive in a strange city

   Across town, in a great railway hotel, sit the two women Ovid will follow.

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3. 3

   Mrs. Gallilee meets her niece at the concert

   The concert is given by Mr. Le Frank, a bald, perfumed pianist who also teaches Mrs. Gallilee's daughters.

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4. 4

   The will gives Mrs. Gallilee a reason to hope

   Mrs. Gallilee has her niece carried to a bedroom prepared down to the flowers.

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5. 5

   Miss Minerva loves Ovid and watches every move

   Ovid spends the night in his study, a man in love who now knows it.

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6. 6

   Benjulia hides a laboratory no one may see

   Doctor Benjulia is six feet six, so thin that his enemies call him the living skeleton.

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7. 7

   Ovid wins a promise and sails for Canada

   Ovid cannot stay well in London.

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8. 8

   Mrs. Gallilee tries three schemes and fails

   With her son gone, Mrs. Gallilee sits among her bills.

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9. 9

   Frances and Carmina turn rivals into friends

   The most surprising bond in the book grows between Carmina and the governess.

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10. 10

    Collins argues that science must keep a heart

    The preface gives the book its argument in borrowed opinions.

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11. 11

    Chance, comedy, and letters shape the telling

    Collins tells the story in a lively, teasing voice that talks to the reader.

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