Yeobright takes Thomasin with her to see Wildeve at the inn he operates in order to demand an explanation of his failure to marry her. The young woman traveling in Diggory Venn's horse cart is Thomasin Yeobright, who was to have married Damon Wildeve that day. The night sky is lit by a number of these bonfires. These are heath folk (locals, living near the heath) come to start a Fifth-of-November bonfire, a local custom. As he continues walking alongside the van, the reddleman notices the figure of a woman, standing atop Rainbarrow, the largest of the many Celtic burial mounds in the area, profiled against the sky, "like an organic part of the entire motionless structure," and then, replacing her, other figures. In the van is a young woman whose identity Venn rudely conceals from the elderly hiker. Soon he encounters a horse-drawn van, being led by Diggory Venn, a reddleman (seller of a reddish powdery dye used by sheep farmers to identify their flock).
a somber, windswept stretch of brown hills and valleys, virtually treeless, covered in briars and thorn bushes"), an older man makes his way. Point of View of The Return of the NativeĪcross Egdon Heath (a "vast tract of unenclosed wild.
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