Excerpt from The Woman in White, a Novel, Vol. 2: Short Stories: The Dead Alive; The Fatal Cradle; Fatal Fortune; Blow Up With the Brig. The Count and Countess Fosco had left Black water Park for their new residence in St. John's Wood. I was not made aware of the motive for this sudden departure - I was only told that the Count had been very particular in leaving his kind compliments to me. When I ventured on asking Sir Percival whether Lady Glyde had any one to attend to her comforts in the absence of the Countess, he replied that she had Marga ret Porcher to wait on her, and he added that a woman from the village had been sent for to do the work downstairs. The answer really shocked me - there was such a glaring impropriety in permitting an under housemaid to fill the place of confidential attend ant on Lady Glyde. I went upstairs at once, and met Margaret on the bedroom landing. Her services had not been required (naturally enough. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.