“If you are not afraid to come to the old marshes to-night or to-morrow night at nine, and to come to the little sluice-house by the limekiln, you had better come. If you want information regarding your uncle Provis, you had much better come and tell no one, and lose no time. You must come alone. Bring this with you.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 52. Pip discovers an anonymous and ominous hand delivered letter telling him to come alone to the marshes. The letter writer claims to have information about “uncle Provis” or the convict Magwitch who is in London. Magwitch has returned to England illegally from exile in Australia in order to see Pip. The threatening letter will be later revealed to be from Orlick.