When Diggory learns of their liaison, he plans to intervene on Thomasin’s behalf. Wildeve correctly interprets her signal, and meets her. The fire attracts only minimal attention, since there are bonfires all along the heath to commemorate November 5th. She lights a bonfire that evening to draw him to her. Wildeve is still infatuated with his former partner, the passionate and mysterious Eustacia Vye, who lives on the heath by circumstance but wants nothing more than to escape it. She is Thomasin Yeobright, humiliated that her wedding to Damon Wildeve was halted due to an issue with the marriage licence in a nearby community. Diggory is discreetly transporting a distressed young woman. The old man, Captain Vye, passes a reddleman, Diggory Venn. As the novel opens, the wild landscape of Edgon Heath broods alone, save for an old man walking home.
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