![]() ![]() She is also expected to marry another of the Doones, her putative cousin Carver. Since Lorna is raised among and by the Doones, everybody assumes that she is one of them. The lawless Doones exercise tyrannical control over Exmoor. ![]() But the point is not dwelled upon until the spoiler is revealed. When John Ridd first meets Lorna in Chapter 8, the alert reader will probably suspect that this is the little girl he has seen briefly in Chapter 3 at an inn, who in turn is the same little girl he notices being kidnapped by the Doones later in that chapter otherwise, those are loose strands in the narrative. The secret of the eponymous heroine's identity is not revealed until Chapter 53-more than two-thirds of the way through. (Even the question doesn't make sense without the spoiler.) ![]() This entire answer is a spoiler it's impossible to answer the question without it. ![]()
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