Marion's dream of Walter's mourning at Laura's tomb." — John McLenan's headnote vignette for the fifteenth weekly number of Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" in Harper's Weekly (17 March 1860) (original) (raw)

Marion's dream of Walter's mourning at Laura's tomb.

John McLenan

17 March 1860

11.3 cm high by 5.6 cm wide (4 &frac;38 by 2 ⅛ inches), framed, p. 133; p. 106 in the 1861 volume edition.

Headnote vignette for the seventeenth part of Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel (1860).

After Fosco has delivered the good news that Glyde has relented over Laura's signing the parchment, Marian is so exhausted that she nods off on a sofa in drawing-room. In her waking dream she focuses on the tribulations of Walter Hartright in the jungles of Honduras, shipwrecked on the shore of a tropical island, and then grieving at marble tomb. Every time that she exhorts him to save himself, he promises to return.

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