Collected Stories by Rhoda Broughton is about a haunted house, a nighttime ride by train with a suspicious stranger, and a nightmare with inauspicious foreboding. Excerpt: «My dearest Cecilia, Talk of the friendships of Orestes and Pylades, of Julie and Claire, what are they to ours? Did Pylades ever go ventre à terre, half over London on a day more broiling than any but an âine damnée could even imagine, so that Orestes might be comfortably housed for the season?»
