The parson tried to reason that the girl was too young to be her sister, but she could not be dissuaded. Part 2 began with Lily caring for the pigs outside her cottage. The Vaughans left the Swan with the child. Rita told him the story of the ferryman known as Quietly, the ghostly keeper of the Thames. Daunt told Rita he remembered hitting his head at Devil’s Weir and finding the girl in the river. When Robin Armstrong saw the girl, he seemed distraught that she was not Alice and fainted. Henry Daunt awakened and confirmed that the child was not his. Vaughan heard about the girl from his gardener, and when he arrived there, he found Helena smiling with the girl she believed to be Amelia. Armstrong then arrived to see the girl but was unsure of her connection to his family. Lily barged into the Swan the morning after the solstice and begged the girl, whom she called Ann, for forgiveness before running out.
He learned about the girl at the Swan shortly after. A butcher’s son, Ben, escorted him to the brothel where Armstrong found Robin’s wife dead. Armstrong traveled to Bampton to determine whether Robin’s wife and daughter still lived there. When she fell asleep, she had a nightmare of a young girl dripping with river water, hovering and pointing angrily at her. Lily White was introduced living in the Basketman’s Cottage. Constantine declined to lie to Helena, but she offered help in the future. Constantine to seek help for their grief about the kidnapping of their daughter Amelia two years prior. She was saved by an indistinct figure just before she tipped into the water. She remembered her childhood and the story her aunt told her about the river goblins that stole children to the bottom of the river. Helena Vaughan was introduced laying in a rowboat on the Thames. Armstrong later confided in his pigs and wondered about the pig who was stolen from him.
Bess found a destroyed letter in her son, Robin’s, jacket pocket and consulted Armstrong. Robert and Bessie Armstrong were introduced at their farm in Kelmscott. Afterward, the story spread from the Swan. Rita reentered the Swan with the living child in her arms. By emptying the man’s pockets, Margot determined he was Henry Daunt, a photographer. Eventually, Rita detected an abnormally slow pulse. She requested to see the girl, and although she could not detect a pulse, she could not determine a cause of death. The people at the Swan called for Rita to care for the man. On the night of the winter solstice, a man with a facial wound entered the Swan carrying a young girl, who was considered dead. Part 1 of the novel began with the backstory of one of the oldest inns on the Thames, the Swan Inn, that specifically drew storytellers. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Setterfield, Diane.
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