The Paying Guest

Spring in the country; Mrs. Peck enters; the Streight family extends; the slow enlightenment of the girl Maud.

Mrs. Peck enters Maulever Hall + slow enlightenment of the girl Maud = plot 79.

Mrs. Peck in this her paying guest; Maud Streight in this her slow enlightenment.

Mrs. Peck + Maud Streight + the parents + the curate + the working jeweller = cast 83.

[T]he storm at the close of August; the working jeweller's bond with the curate; the slow unraveling.

22 chapters of slow rural scene-making = pace 80.

[T]he rural scene is the late-Gissing rural scene; the prose is the late-Gissing prose.

Late Gissing's compressed prose; rural England = prose 87.

[T]he provincial boarding-house is the late-Victorian boarding-house; the village church is the late-Victorian church.

1890s provincial boarding-house; the village church = world 85.

Spring in the country; Mrs. Peck enters.

'Spring in the Country' as opening salutation = hook 85.

[T]he paying guest is the late-Gissing figure of class-crossing in rural England.

Late Gissing: paying guest as class-crossing figure = innov 84.

[T]he last night; Maud's final statement; the bond is closed.

'The Last Night' — Maud's final statement = ending 83.