For Elizabeth-Jane's sake, Susan and Michael decide to pretend they never married and a new marriage follows a formal courtship. Eighteen years later, after Newson’s death at sea, Susan and Elizabeth-Jane seek Henchard and find him a wealthy and influential man, the Mayor of Casterbridge. Unable to find them, he goes into a church and swears an oath that he will not drink alcohol for twenty-one years, the same number of years he has been alive. He regrets what he has done and searches the town for his wife and daughter. When they stop to eat, Henchard gets drunk, and in an auction that begins as a joke but turns serious, he sells his wife and their baby daughter, Elizabeth-Jane ( Jodhi May), to Newson, a sailor, for five guineas. There is something of all that in the story of Michael Henchard ( Ciaràn Hinds), which starts with him travelling with his wife, Susan ( Juliet Aubrey), looking for employment as a hay-trusser.
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