The Old Ladies
by Hugh Walpole
In an old rickety house on a cliff above an old square covered with grass in the town of Polchester, three old women live. The house was a windy, squeaky, rain-bitten place where ladies lived as residents. One of the tenants, Mrs. Beringer, has a rather nervous personality, but is friendly with a kind neighbor named Mrs. Amorest. But soon he meets a third tenant, a strange woman who is interested in his monovalent estate, an amber figure. Although it is the morning of Christmas Eve, and Mrs. Amorest is doing her best to develop a festive mood, the mood in the house soon becomes ominous.
