The house looked dark and forbidding .

All ahead islands of dark pine trees rose out of the plain.

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the 1)smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

Ledger has a fright wig of ragged hair; thick, running gobs of white makeup; scarlet lips; and dark-shadowed eyes.

Terrified of being caught and sent back to slavery and punishment, she spent almost seven years hidden in her master's town, in the tiny dark attic of her grandmother's house.