Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers. Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts: 1,238,602, Quizzes: 344 Miles and Edward are in a crowded cell with others who have committed minor offenses. The other prisoners are male and female, of all ages. Miles is upset that his homecoming was not the joyous one he had been expecting. He is angry at Edith, whom he is certain knows him and believes has denied him for her own interests. Some of the prisoners get drunk after bribing the jailer to give them liquor. A man nearly kills a woman. Sleep is rather difficult to come by. A week goes by. People Hendon recognizes come to insult him as an impostor. An old man is brought in, an old servant. The jailer forces him to den

