Instead, he takes out a large loan in order to repay Mrs. However, he doesn’t have the heart to demand money from her, seeing her poverty and eight children to feed. Moss, since she owes him a significant amount of money that he hopes to get back. Maggie feels so rejected that she decides to run away from home to live with the gypsies, who bring her back to her parents that same evening. Jealous that Tom and Lucy are playing together without her, she pushes Lucy into the mud, horrifying the adults. During the visit, however, Maggie makes a spectacle of herself. Pullet for help, hoping to end the quarrel between Mr. Glegg has lent the family, since he doesn’t want to be beholden to anyone-and especially not his wife’s sister.

Tulliver decides to try to pay back the three hundred pounds Mrs. However, she quickly regrets this, since she is then roundly mocked by all the adults. Glegg’s criticisms of her long dark hair that she runs upstairs and cuts off her hair with scissors. However, both children like playing with Lucy Deane, their sweet and pretty cousin.

Glegg, who constantly criticizes them for being “naughty” and predicts they will come to a bad end. Maggie and Tom particularly dislike the bad-tempered Mrs.

Tulliver’s sisters come for a visit as well. Maggie apologizes profusely and is very distressed at Tom’s anger, so he eventually forgives her. He points out that he carefully saved up his money to buy her a gift, whereas she carelessly forgot to feed the rabbits and let them die. However, upon his return Tom is angry with her because she failed to take care of his rabbits in his absence. Maggie is delighted when Tom comes home from school for a visit, since she adores her older brother. Riley, decides to send Tom to study with Mr. On the recommendation of a family friend, Mr. Tulliver admits that he never had much education himself, but wants to send Tom to school in the hopes that his son will go into business. The little girl, it is later revealed, is Maggie Tulliver. The unnamed narrator, whose gender is never specified, dreams of Dorlcote Mill, the Tulliver family’s ancestral home, and sees a little girl playing outside. The Mill on the Floss centers on the childhood and young adulthood of Maggie and Tom Tulliver, two siblings growing up in the fictional town of St.

The mill and the floss