Piece of Justice Part III

Fran is thankful for her narrow escape from being the third biographer who was killed off. Imogen and Fran decide to go to visit old Mrs Evans, who was considered a quirky old lady who had settled into the Valley, learned Welsh and been well liked. Violet is now old and frail but in her youth she was a mathematics student at Cambridge. But when Cambridge refused to give women degrees there was a riot at the college and she was hurt in the fighting that went on... and her nose was broken. It upset her a lot, the refusal to accept women's degrees and the violence against those who protested. She left Cambridge without taking her degree and went back home. She married a young farmer from Wales, who was comfortably off and while she missed Cambridge she had a good life as a farmer's wife. She learned to make quilts and she made the quilt with the mathematical pattern that Gideon copied and stole to pass off as his own research. He had felt guilty about it, and wanted to come clean but Janet wouldn't let him. Imogen approaches the college authorities and on the next degree day, she is awarded her degree and takes part in the graduation ceremony, which pleases her.