This psychological ghost story by Ellen Glasgow combines themes of the supernatural, crime (murder) and justice (revenge). A young nurse besotted by a popular doctor is assigned as night-nurse to his ailing wife. The woman, who is recovering from the death of her young daughter from a previous marriage, is suffering “hallucinations” that the girl is still alive. When the nurse claims that she, too, can see the spectral child, the mother confides that her husband killed her. The woman dies soon afterwards and, when the doctor claims her multi-million dollar estate, justice is served in an unexpected manner.
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