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Advancing from time past to time present, the Prologue leaves the date last attained (the summer of eighteen hundred and fifty-five), and travels on through an interval of twelve years -- tells who lived, who died, who prospered, and who failed among the persons concerned in the tragedy at the Hampstead villa -- and, this done, leaves the reader at the opening of the story in the spring of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
The record begins with a marriage -- the marriage of Mr. Vanborough and Lady Jane Parnell.