Esther was lying in bed half asleep when the clock struck midnight a voice spoke to her. It sounded to her like her bother Tom and it warned her that her husband Charles must not go to the house of Waverley that it would bring death and sorrow. Esther begged her husband not to go to the house tonight even though he was going to find out what had happened to her brother, Tom Hargreaves.

Author: R. P. Gilles