Saki is the master of comic short stories which have surprising – even shocking – endings. In this very funny piece, a young man who is staying in the country because of a nervous illness visits a neighbour. The young girl he meets though has some unusual stories to tell him that only make his nervous problems much worse (1,000 words)
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