Society Girl Constance Wetherill is faced with a dramatic lifestyle change right on page one. Her recently-deceased uncle has mismanaged the family’s assets and there is only “the paltry sum of five thousand dollars” between herself and poverty.
She decides it best to disappear from society to avoid the scorn of her friends and longs to “begin life as if she were another girl and to see whether she could not make of it something worth while.”
Constance takes a trip to think things out. While her train has stopped for an accident blocking the tracks, she gets out for a stroll and stumbles upon an old house that the locals say is haunted by the ghosts of a girl who committed suicide and her faithful dog. Could this “hanted” house be used as a hiding place and a refuge from the storm of The Wetherill’s life?
