The River Thames is where Daniel meets Mirah for the first time. It is also where he realizes she intends to drown herself. Mirah says to him, "If you had not come, I should have been dead now" (Eliot 171). Unfortunately, in the 19th century, the River Thames was a prime place to catch a disease with human waste clogging the waters (Jeffries).
Works Cited
Delso, Diego. Ayuntamiento y Shard, Londres, Inglaterra. 11 August 2014, Wikimedia Commons.
Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. The Modern Library, 2002.
Jeffries, Stuart. "Water, Super-Sewers and the Filth Threatening the River Thames." The Guardian, 22 July 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/22/water-thames-victor….
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