In which the innocent squabbles of young Milly and her cousin Maud give way to tender reconciliation marked by a simple turquoise ring, whilst the weightier shadow of Uncle Silas’s mysterious ailment grows ever more disturbing. Amid the long winter nights at Bartram-Haugh, the quiet attentions of servants and the arrival of a midnight visitor stir unease, as the household contemplates the fragile state of their somber and secretive guardian.