The Thirteenth Tale Chapter Summary & Analysis - Part Two, Middles: The Silver Garden, Phonetic Alphabet, The Ladder, Eternal Twilight, and Fossilized Tears, Summary

Part Two, Middles: The Silver Garden, Phonetic Alphabet, The Ladder, Eternal Twilight, and Fossilized Tears, Summary

Margaret wakes in the middle of the night mistakenly thinking it is daytime. Margaret decides to go for a walk in the garden. While she is walking, Margaret is joined by Shadow. Margaret follows Shadow into the depths of the garden where she stumbles upon who she thinks is Miss Winter until the woman turns around. The woman looks like Miss Winter digging in the flowerbeds, but she has terrible burn scars on her face. This must be Emmeline. The woman says something that sounds like the five notes Margaret heard a few days before. The woman then runs back into the house.

Margaret goes back into the house and begins to write down what she heard Emmeline say. Margaret taught herself the phonetic alphabet as a child out of curiosity and to have a secret language in which she could write her sister's name. Now Margaret believes that it...
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