From the Madding Crowd.
This character's husband insists on serving a group of laborers hard liquor during a party, leaving them unable to work before a coming storm. Â She saves a man from dying of smoke inhalation after she meets that man at a tollbooth, where he had paid her fare and where her one fault was labelled as vanity. Â Her romance with one man includes a beekeeping date and a forest rendezvous where she is dazzled by a sword exercise. Â This character berates her husband for losing money on gambling at the races and for keeping a lock of (*) Fanny Robin's hair. Â After sending him a valentine, Boldwood falls in love with this woman who comes to regret her hasty marriage to Sergeant Troy. Â For 10 points, name this character who eventually marries Gabriel Oak in Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd.
This character's husband insists on serving a group of laborers hard liquor during a party, leaving them unable to work before a coming storm.
Bathsheba Everdene [accept either name]