Captain Grimes and Flossie Fagan are married soon after the evening at the Metropole and Grimes is moved from the masters' half of the Castle to that in which the Headmaster and his family live, though Dr. Fagan puts his new son-in-law in the West Tower, as far from himself as possible. This arrangement turns out to be as bad as or worse than Grimes' fears concerning married life.
Though he and Flossie get on well enough, the Headmaster's intense scorn for the less learned, lower class man causes an agony of self-doubt in Grimes, leading into a fierce depression that will eventually be his undoing.
Having received a letter from Sam Clutterbuck, offering him a job as a beer taster for his brewery, Grimes resolves to leave Llanabba and accept the proposition,.....
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