Mary goes to bed that night with a heavy heart, she does not want to be at Jamaica Inn, but she knows she must stay for her aunt's sake. Joss drags Mary inside and then introduces her to her Aunt Patience, a poor tattered creature in a state of nervous anxiety almost unrecognisable from her former self. This frightening figure is Joss Merlin, the landlord of Jamaica Inn. Mary finds her way to the front door, which is answered by an enormous and powerful looking man carrying a lantern. Eventually the coach stops and the driver hurriedly deposit's Mary and her box of possessions on the roadside in front of Jamaica Inn, which is in total darkness. They set off again and Mary's apprehension grows as the coach races over the moor through the wind, rain and darkness. Mary tells the coach driver that she wants to go on to Jamaica Inn and he is alarmed, he tells her that coach's no longer stop there and that decent folk don't go to Jamaica Inn any more. Mary leaves Helford on a bleak November day and the coach takes her a far as Bodmin where everyone else gets off. Aunt Patience lives with her landlord husband at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor half way between Bodmin and Launceston. She has lived all her life in the tranquil village of Helford, but when her mother dies she sets off to live with her mothers sister, Patience, a pretty, lively woman who Mary has not seen for many years. Jamaica Inn The central character of Jamaica Inn is Mary Yellen a young woman of twenty−three.
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