Short Fiction · Character

Rosalys Ambrose

A gently bred young woman who slips away to a gloomy London church to marry her golden-haired Jim, trembling between love and dread.

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Also known as So Rosalys, Rosalys, little Rosalys

First appearance: destiny and a blue cloak

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The young lady who meets Jim secretly on the terrace; she is torn between her love for him and her discomfort with deception.

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Rosalys moves through a city of shouting drivers and blood-stained butchers' blouses, her head aching and her heart feverish as she approaches the altar. She clings to Jim Durrant, whose careless lie about the residency requirement she half-absorbs, and the shabbiness of the other brides around her sharpens her sense of the step she is taking. Her shiver of disgust and the tears that rise at the church door mark her as someone whose romantic courage is inseparable from her fear of what she is becoming.

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Character groups

Romantic Entanglements and Consequences
Complex Web of Love and Consequences
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Narrative arc

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Setup
Escalation
Breaking point
Aftermath
Closing

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Jim Hayward
friendship · positive
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Jim Hayward
friendship · positive
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Jim Hayward
friendship · positive
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Not present in this chapter.
I
The young lady who meets Jim secretly on the terrace; she is torn between her love for him and her discomfort with deception.
II
Leaves home to secretly marry Jim, feels superstitious about a lame horse, and experiences a mix of joy and sadness after the ceremony.
III
Loathes the secrecy and lies of her marriage, feels humiliated, and confronts Jim about his changed behavior.
IV
Feels trapped and indifferent; struggles with the aftermath of her secret marriage to Jim.
V
Now sole mistress of Ambrose Towers, she is about to marry Lord Parkhurst while haunted by her past with Jim Durrant.
VI
Torn between her love for Lord Parkhurst and the reappearance of her husband Jim Durrant, she is overwhelmed by guilt and despair.
VII
Initially devastated by Jim's betrayal, she burns her renunciatory letter and marries Lord Parkhurst.

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