It was a truth universally ignored, most principally by the dowager Dame Hartwell, that ghosts and gatherings did not mix. In this short story, the fashionable and eccentric dowager Dame Hartwell has lured the reclusive Miss Tessa Preston to attend her drawing room s?ance. If Dame Hartwell can't convince Miss Preston, her former prot?g?, to return as her medium-in-residence, she doesn't know how she will protect her son and his new...