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(chapter 3) She made an agreement to stay at Eel Marsh House with him as long as she never revealed her true identity to him. She secretly planned to aboscond from the house with her son. One day, a pony and trap carrying the boy across the causeway, became lost and sank into the marshes, killing all abroad, while Jennet looked helplessly from the window. The child's screams that Kipps heard were those of Nathaniel's ghost. After Jennet died, she returned to haunt Eel Marsh House and town of Crythin Gifford, as the malevolent woman in black. According to local tales, sighting of the woman in black presaged the death of a child. After some time, Kipps returns to London, marries Stella, has a child of his own, and tries to put the events at Crythin Gifford behind him. At a fair, while his wife and child are enjoying pony and trap ride, Kipps sees the woman in black. She steps and from of the horse and startles it, causing it to bolt & wreck the carriage against a tree, ..............follow for the £nd....... |
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