At first feeling sympathy for the young woman, who appears to be suffering from a wasting disease, he asks Mr. Jerome who she is.

After their return to the inn, Mr. Jerome's mood lifts and says that a local man will arrive shortly to escort Arthur to Mrs. Drablow's house.

He tries to return across the causeway on foot in the fog, but quickly becomes lost and is forced to retrace his steps to Eel Marsh House.

Arthur listens helplessly as the pony and trap get stuck in the mire and its occupants, including a young child, are drowned.

Returning to Eel Marsh House, Arthur finds that the locked room is a child's nursery, abandoned but in perfect condition.

The next day, Arthur finds correspondence from almost sixty years ago, between Mrs. Drablow and a mysterious woman who is apparently her sister.

Unable to accept being parted from her son, Jennet returned to Crythin Gifford after a time and stayed with her sister.

Jennet, driven insane by grief, contracted a terrible wasting disease and died several years later.

He tells Arthur the story of the Woman and explains that many of the local people he has met (Jerome, Keckwick, and Daily himself) have all lost a child after seeing her.

Suddenly, Arthur sees the Woman in Black, who steps in front of the trap, scaring the pony.

However, the Actor asks Kipps about the "pale young lady with the wasted face" playing the Woman in Black.

Mirroring the earlier scene with Mr. Jerome, a terrified Kipps reveals that nobody else had been in the theatre but them, implying that the real Woman in Black had been present.

[3] In publicity literature, the actress in the title role is surreptitiously listed as 'Vision', but was originally Bristol Old Vic Theatre School-trained Nicola Sloane.

For the 30th Anniversary year the West End cast from May 2018-March 2019 was Richard Hope as Arthur Kipps and Mark Hawkins as the Actor, then from 19 March 2019 Stuart Fox with Matthew Spencer.

Following the closure of the theatre due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the show reopened on 15 September 2021 and saw both Terence Wilton and Max Hutchinson returning to play respectively Arthur Kipps and The Actor.

Following its final West End performance in March 2023, the production transferred to a new UK Tour, opening at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre in September 2023.

[11] In 2018, Herford presented the first U.S. staging of his West End direction at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

The production opened on 18 November and ran through 17 February of the following year, starring Bradley Armacost and Adam Wesley Brown.

[15] In 2006–2007, a production starring John Waters and Brett Tucker toured Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

Directed by Laurel Candler, the production starred Paul Wintemute as Kipps and Sam Donovan as The Actor.