"I see you told her fortune. Had she a good hand?" "There was death in it." The inhabitants of the quiet English village of Teene are a mixed bag. The schoolmistress is an artist manqu , her quick brain wasted for lack of opportunity. There is old Mrs. Simmons at the filling station, gloating over her discreditable past, and bullying her flighty young daughter. The fastidious Reverend Perry is more interested in his books than curing...