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Summary of the Open Window

The open window was written by H. H. Munro. This story happened in a rural retreat. One day, Framton Nuttel, who suffered mental illness, came to visit Mrs. Sappleton, a native inhabitant, introduced by his sister, who had lived there before. However, Mrs. Sappleton was busy with doing something, before she was down, her niece Vera had a conversation with Mr. Nuttel.

The fifteen-year-old girl told Mr. Nuttel that three years ago to a day, Mrs. Sappleton’s husband and two young brothers went out for hunting with their spaniel. Unfortunately, they were all engulfed in a piece of bog. But Mrs. Sappleton thought they would come back one day so she opened the wide window all the time.

Actually, Vera was telling a lie, but Mr. Nuttel thought she was telling the truth. After Mrs. Sappleton’s coming, they had a conversation in a careless way: Mrs. Sappleton rattled about her families’ shooting and Mr. Nuttel talked about his illness. This conversation was broken by her husband and brothers’ returning. For Mr. Nuttel ran away in a hurry as if he saw ghosts at the moment when he saw they came back just like what Vera had said: they were in white raincoats and coming through in window with their little dog.

The Sappletons did not understand why Mr. Nuttel was so nervous and even not say goodbye. They just regarded him as an impolite guest. To explain this, Vera made a story again and she said Mr. Nuttel was afraid of dogs.