When she does she reveals to Walter that it was Glyde who had had her put in the asylum and that his intentions were not good. A young boy tells them he has seen a ghost dressed in white near the grave of Marian's mother, and Walter decides to wait there in the hope that the woman returns. Marian tells Walter that the man's name is Sir Percival Glyde, and that nothing bad has been said of him. Laura receives an anonymous letter suggesting that she be very careful to inquire about the past of the man she is to marry. Marian realizes that Walter has become very close with Laura and warns him that Laura is engaged to someone else. Walter then sees the woman in white again in the grounds of Limmeridge House, but she runs away before he can talk to her. Marian tells Walter of Anne Catherick, a young lady no longer with them who dressed in white and bore a close resemblance to Laura. There is a remarkable similarity between Laura and the woman in white, which Walter mentions to Marian. Walter departs the next day for Limmeridge where he meets Frederick, his niece Laura, and her half-sister Marian Halcombe.

Some time later Walter overhears a conversation between a policeman and a coach passenger suggesting that the woman is deranged and has escaped from an asylum. Shortly afterwards the woman rushes away and boards a coach. Before he leaves for Cumberland, he meets a woman dressed in white, who tells him she used to live at Limmeridge.

Walter Hartright receives a letter from Frederick Fairlie requesting that he restore his art collection and tutor his nieces at Limmeridge House in Cumberland. Tony Flynn as Mr Merriman, Percival Glyde's solicitor.Olivia Vinall as Laura Fairlie/Anne Catherick.

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