Making a temporary home in a local cottage, and telling Maud they are simply waiting for their affairs to be brought to order in London, Gentleman and a reluctant Sue make arrangements for Maud to be committed to an asylum for the insane. Deeply distressed, but feeling she has no choice, Sue persuades Maud to marry Gentleman, and the trio flee from Briar to a nearby church, where Maud and Gentleman are hastily married in a midnight ceremony. After a time, Sue realises she has fallen in love with Maud, and begins to regret her involvement in Gentleman's plot.
Sue and Maud forge an unlikely friendship, which develops into a mutual physical attraction. Her uncle uses her as a secretary to assist him as he supposedly compiles a dictionary, and keeps her to the house, working with him in the silence of his library. Like Sue, Maud was orphaned at birth her mother died in a mental asylum, and she has never known her father. Sue travels to Briar, Maud's secluded home in the country, where she lives a sheltered life under the care of her uncle, Christopher Lilly. Once they are married, Gentleman plans to commit Maud to a madhouse and claim her fortune for himself. Posing as a maid, Sue is to gain the trust of the lady, Maud Lilly, and eventually persuade her to elope with Gentleman. Sue Trinder, an orphan raised in "a Fagin-like den of thieves" by her adoptive mother, Mrs Sucksby, is sent to help Richard "Gentleman" Rivers seduce a wealthy heiress.
Fingersmith is a 2002 historical crime novel set in Victorian-era Britain by Sarah Waters.
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