Raven pessimistically speaks about the cows coughing in the early morning mist and the cold weather of October. In the mist that does not lift until midday and closes down again at four o'clock, Mr. Brundish makes an unexpected visit to Mrs. Gamart at the Stead.
Sickly, fainting, and without all the appropriate protocols and manners, he had called to ask Mrs. Gamart to leave Florence Green alone. At the end of the discussion in which Violet refused to join forces with him, she asks if he thinks her outrageous. 'By outrageous I take it that you mean unexpectedly offensive. You have been offensive, Mrs. Gamart, but you have been exactly as I expected,' he replied.
Half way across the street on his way home, Mr. Brundish falls over and dies. He is buried on.....
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