![]() ![]() Lilly proceeds to slap her hand with another pair of gloves, causing her pain. Taken to her uncle's library, she breaks another rule by stepping past a marker on the floor. Lilly will require her to keep wearing her gloves, Maud defiantly pulls them off and throws them away. Despite Maud's objections, she is brought to Briar, her uncle's house. Ibbs, John Vroom and Dainty, is very fond of Susan, and is particularly impressed by her skills as a pickpocket, claiming that the girl will one day make their fortunes. Sucksby, the den mother of a gang of criminals, including Mr. Sucksby, who was paid to look after her for a week when she was a baby. Christopher Lilly, and that he has come to take her into his home, over her objections. Speaking to her as little as possible, preferring to speak to her chaperone, he explains that he is her uncle, Mr. Later, somewhat more composed, she curiously asks him why his tongue is so black. ![]() ![]() One day, she has a visitor in the form of an old man all in black, the very sight of whom scares her so much that she screams. Young Maud Lilly lives in an insane asylum in the English countryside, where her mother died giving birth to her. ![]() When the hanging happens, she does not turn away from it, as some of the watchers do. She is every bit as enthusiastic to see the hanging as any of them, despite the fact that her own mother was reputedly hanged for murder. In Victorian London's Lant Street, young Susan Trinder sells tickets to people wanting to take advantage of her home's view of a hanging. ![]()
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