Under the Greenwood Tree

''At sight of him had the pink of her cheeks increased, lessened, or did it continue to cover its normal area of ground? It was a question meditated several hundreds of times by her visitor in after-hours - the meditation, after wearying involutions, always ending in one way, that it was impossible to say''

The arrival of two newcomers in the quiet village of Mellstock arouses a bitter feud and lea...