Trial By Ordeal

When an American writer inherits a cottage in a sleepy English village, she thinks she has found the ideal hideaway to write her next novel. She finds the place fascinating. This fascination, however, is short-lived. One day, she receives a summons to attend the local manorial court, to answer charges based on three centuries-old local bylaws. As an alternative to attending the court, she is offered the option of accepting guidance, and a few days later she is visited by the local greengrocer, who has come to give her guidance on the first of the three offences. What will this involve? And will it hurt?