One day while Charles and Ernestine are walking on the beach, it is storming. Charles sees a woman on the outcliff overlooking the sea. The waves are swelling and he fears for her safety. He approaches the woman and begs her to retreat to safety. Their eyes meet briefly, a flame is kindled. She is Sara Woodruff, the French Lieutenants Woman. Charles hears about her reputation from the local gossip, but refuses to believe anything bad about her. He asks his friend Dr. Grogan about her. Dr.Grogan ponders some of Freud's theories about psychology and tells Charles that he believes her to have a mental disease known as melancholy. Charles meets with Sara in the woods from time to time and Sara tells Charles he must never speak of their meetings. Sara returns to her boarding house. She lives with a prudish Victorian woman, Mrs. Poultney, who scolds her for such unseemly behavior. Charles and Sara continue to meet and Sara confides in Charles about how she got her reputation. Apparently she gave herself to a man she was not wed to and he left her and went to France. For years she awaited his return, walking the outcliff overlooking the sea. She feared that he would not return for she discovered he was married. 1.end - Charles go to see his uncle sir Thomson, who tells him that he has married, so there is a posibility that Charles would not be the heir of all his fortune. When he goes back to Lyme, he passes across the Exter, the place where Sara is living now. But is raining cats and dogs, so Charles decides to go to Lyme without pass there any time. He decided to marry Ernestine and he gave her a beautiful brooch. And he talked her all about Sarah… Sir Thomson had two sons, so Charles must to do the business of Ernestine‘s father and Mrs. Poultney, when she died , she went to the hell.

2.end –because is raining cats and dogs, Charles dicedes to paas a night in Exter and he visits Sara. They make love and after this night Charles decides to stay with Sara and he sends Sam to give her a letter and a beautiful brooch. And Sam cames back without any answer, because instead of giving her a letter and a brooch, he give the brooch to his girlfriend Mary. Charles leaves to Lyme to break off his engagement to Ernestine. Upon breaking the engagement, Charles has to sign a legal document declining the right to be considered a gentleman. The document becomes the property of Ernestine, and she is free to publish it if she desires. Sara runs off and when Charles came back, he didn‘t find her. Charles decides to travel.