In the past, I read The Phantom Carriage and Other Stories by this same author. Those were ghost stories, but this one was a bit different.
Gretchen is a girl living with her father in the country. He's a loyal soldier to the king, so when word comes that he needs to keep a prisoner at his home, he readily complies. The mysterious man goes by the name Monsieur Maurice and immediately captures Gretchen's imagination. As time goes by, events get more mysterious and even Gretchen's father is getting suspicious.
This book is short and is something of a slow burn. With it being so short, that's kind of impressive, but it struck me as a bit slow in the beginning and then picked up toward the end. SPOILER: My main issue is that we never find out who Monsieur Maurice really was. They reveal how he got there, but never really why or who he really was.
I suppose it was okay, but the end was a bit strange. M. M. writes them a few times, and then it trails off. The old lady is just telling the story of a man she once knew. I liked the ghost stories better.
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