It was a truth universally ignored that sons abhorred being sent to s?ances in search of a wife. In this short story (approx. 4,000 words) Jasper Steele has had enough of ghosts to last him a lifetime, so why is he attending a s?ance? Mostly to appease his mother, who worries about his head and his heart after his summer in the English countryside getting rejected by Mary Trentwood. Eloise Carterprice has never been one...