There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road, stood the figure of a solitary woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments, her face bent in grave inquiry upon mine.

Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins — The Woman in White (1859) · Read it at Project Gutenberg

What holds this sentence together

How it appears in Sentle

On Sentle this sentence arrives in 7 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. Walter Hartright reflects on the strange and troubling encounter that set the whole story in motion. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.