Our Mutual Friend

A waterman, rowing with his daughter on the Thames in search of plunder, discovers the body of a man who had been brutally assaulted before being drowned. Who is the man?

Society takes a hand and Gaffer Hexam, the waterman who discovered the body, is suspected of murder.

Noddy Boffin, the ‘Golden Dustman', engages a secretary while the Wilfers decide to take a lodger and Bella is adopted.

Roger ‘Rogue' Riderhood claims a reward for information and Silas Wegg proposes a friendly move.

Charley Hexam takes a brother's interest in Lizzie; Bella takes her father, the ‘cherub', out to dinner.

Riderhood meets a stranger; Lizzie receives a proposal; and a terrified Betty Higden runs away.