Armadale Book the last - Chapter III, pt 1

In which Miss Gwilt arrives at the Sanitarium under a dark veil of secrecy and resolves to take a sleeping draught prescribed by the doctor, who in turn prepares his establishment for both her care and an impending visitors' day. Amidst the visits of curious ladies, the doctor extols the virtues of his carefully regulated haven for nervous sufferers, illustrating with quiet confidence the moral and medical safeguards that underpin his unconventional system of treatment.