A young woman, after her fiancée’s death, cannot understand her feelings about the socially-motivated engagement’s end. Parents apathetic, cousin overwhelmingly sympathetic, only a reemerging suitor’s advances allow her to understand— what she feels is grief.

A Young woman, Jane, suddenly finds herself inheriting an old house previously owned by her great-grandfather. As she starts to pack the house up to sell, she discovers old letters and journals written by her great-grandfather. The more Jane reads, the more she learns about a terrible family secret. Haunted by a confused and scared ghost, she has to navigate the house's history.