The Woman in White

Walking late at night from the train station to Limmeridge House, where he has been hired to teach drawing, Walter Hartright meets a woman in white who vanishes when a carriage approaches. A man in the carriage says that they are searching for a woman recently escaped from a nearby asylum. As the carriage drives by, Walter glimpses another man inside. Walter reaches Limmeridge House and meets Marian Halcombe, cousin and companion to Miss Laura Fairlie. Other occupants are elderly nurse Mrs. Vesey and Laura's invalid uncle, Frederick. A guest who has recently arrived is Count Alesandro Fosco, the carriage's other occupant.