Near to tears, she waited to hear her fate.
"Tell me what you think of me! Tell me the truth!" she said.
"With my own lips?" he asked.
"Yes," she answered. "Say what you think of me with your own lips."
She looked up at him for the first time, and then, he stooped and kissed her.
[The Woman in White]
Wilkie Collins' greatest success was achieved on the appearance of "The Woman in White" in 1860, a story described by Thackeray as "thrilling." The book attracted immediate attention, Collins' method of unravelling an intricate plot by a succession of narratives being distinctly novel, and appealing immensely to the reading public.
I.--The Woman Appears
The story here presented will be told by several pens. Let Walter Hartright, teacher of drawing, aged twenty-eight, be heard first.