- Susan and her daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, are traveling together and talking.
- They discuss the reasons for their journey: Captain Newson, the sailor, has died, and he didn't leave them very much money.
- It's clear that Elizabeth-Jane thinks Captain Newson was her father.
- They're going to find Michael Henchard, whom Susan vaguely describes as "a distant relation by marriage."
- Their first stop is at the fair where Michael sold Susan eighteen years earlier.
- Susan doesn't tell Elizabeth-Jane about the auction, of course, but just says that this is the last place she'd seen her "relation."
- Susan looks around for the furmity lady and finds her still scraping together a living selling watered-down furmity at the edge of the fairground.
- Susan has a private conversation with her and learns that Henchard has moved to Casterbridge.
- Susan and Elizabeth-Jane get a room at an inn so they can travel to Casterbridge in the morning.