The Dead Secret

Wilkie Collins – an English writer and playwright, the author of the world's first detective novel. On a summer night in 1829, in an old mansion on the coast of Cornwall, Lady Treverton dies, leaving her grief-stricken husband and little daughter Rosamund. Before her death, she dictates a message to her maid Sarah Lison, who does not dare to show it to the master of the house and hides it in one of the rooms, then disappears without a trace. Sixteen years later, Rosamund is about to return to the mansion, but the suddenly reappeared Sarah Lison tries to prevent her. What does the mistress's dying letter hide? For the convenience of the reader, the text is accompanied by comments and a dictionary. Intended for level A2.