Next morning, back in the Adelphi Hotel, without telling Abby who had already let slip she had arranged a lunchtime ‘business meeting’ with Lynton, Victoria quietly decides over breakfast to meet Julian and take him to Orsbrick Hall, anticipating his historic knowledge of old buildings would be very useful. Picking him up from Liverpool, she remains nervous of revisiting her old childhood haunts and worried about the woman in the purple shawl. But once they arrive, the house and contents are not at all what she assumed and unexplainable events force her to finally come clean with Julian and reveal secrets of her past she had not anticipated doing as well as raising more questions, this time about Julian.