Dover: Time And Space In David Copperfield
Miss Betsey Trotwood was married to a charming person younger than herself. But she found him a wife- beater, and one day he threw her out of a window by stairs. She got a separation from him after paying him a compensation. He went with the money to India. It was first heard that he was riding elephants in India, and later that he was dead. Miss Betsey took her maiden name, purchased a cottage in Dover, a seaside town, and settled herself there with Mr Dick, an invalid and a maid servant, Janet. David, standing at the garden gate looked into the parlour and found that there was nobody. He looked upwards and saw a window through which he could see a florid pleasant looking gentleman with a grey head, who shut up one eye in a grotesque manner, nodded his head several times at David, then laughed and went away. David was disturbed by this, and was thinking of slinking off, when there came out of the house a lady with her handkerchief tied o...