The next morning, he returns to the shed just as the young woman also returns, and brings her the hat she had lost in the windy night. Observing them, he realizes that the younger one is the same woman he encountered on the wagon. Inside a nearby shed, he finds two women tending to a sick cow. That night, while staying in his hut and tending to his sheep, Gabriel sees an unexpected light and goes to investigate.
He catches up to the wagon when the driver and the woman engage in a dispute about the rate they have to pay at a turnpike, and settles the dispute by paying the fare himself. While Gabriel is out walking, he observes an attractive young woman riding on a wagon full of household items. Gabriel is an unassuming man in his late twenties who has risen from humble beginnings as a shepherd to work as a bailiff (a manager of a farm) and now leases his own farm near the town of Norcombe, where he tends a flock of sheep. The novel opens on a December afternoon with the introduction of a character named Gabriel Oak.
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