Uncle Silas Chapter 58 - Lady Knollys' Carriage

In which Maud lies prostrate with a heavy malaise that clouds her mind and spirits, while a party of visitors calls at Bartram-Haugh and a secretive figure, Madame, attends her with whispered urgency and strange actions involving locked doors. Amidst fleeting hopes for rescue and whispered threats of looming legal peril, Maud’s desperate cries for aid slip away unheard, leaving her in a desolate state of anguish and passive surrender.