"Bartholomew Fell was not the only ghost associated with the old house. Though Miss Amaury was sceptical there were apparently ghost dogs who occupied the real dogs' baskets and tripped people up. Miss Amaury, too, was incredulous of her fellow-guests' stories; throughout the fortnight of the Music Course, however remarkable the facts, she would always have some rational explanation of the strange, enthralling tales the other students told each other in the evenings" --Inside front dust jacket flap.