Despite Verity's protests, Francis challenges Andrew to a duel. Verity tries to tell him that she should be allowed to make her own choices. Ross tries to make them see that they have misjudged Andrew, but they won't believe him and Francis goes to find Andrew at Nampara. Ross agrees that she may meet with Andrew at his home. She goes to Nampara where she tells Ross that she knows Andrew has changed, and that he loves her and she wants to keep meeting him. They try to keep her in the house until she promises not to meet with Andrew again, but Verity decides to sneak out. Charles and Francis tell Verity that Andrew has a drinking problem, and killed his wife. However, when her family find out about Blamey, they are not happy and speak of a secret he has. They get along very well and he asks her when he may see her again. At the dance, Verity meets Captain Andrew Blamey. Verity lives a very sheltered life with her father, so she sneaks over to Nampara where she asks Ross to escort her to a dance. She spoke to Ross again during the wedding, and told him about George Warleggan's success in the financial business. Verity later attended Francis and Elizabeth's wedding. Verity told Ross she was sorry for what he had returned home to, but he would have to find his own way through it.

Ross made a snarky comment about how Elizabeth just agreed to marry Francis because he was rich. Verity later met Ross while she was walking and she told him that the wedding would be taking place in a fortnight, even though Elizabeth and Francis had not been together very long. Ross was presumed dead for two years, but she was glad when Ross showed up during the dinner. Her father treated her like she was a servant, demanding she hurry to serve food. In September 1783, she attended a dinner to celebrate her brother's engagement to their cousin Ross Poldark's former love, Elizabeth Chynoweth. Due to her plain appearance, she remains a spinster and Trenwith began to feel like a prison to her. She ended up having to care for her father, who laughed at her lack of prospects. Their mother died when Verity was around the age of 15, and she had to take her place in the running of the household. She had a younger brother, Francis Poldark and was raised at Trenwith. Verity Poldark was born in 1758 to Charles and Verity Poldark (née Michell).

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