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english class 7 chapter open window short note

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The Open Window Summary

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In "The Open Window," a young woman named Vera frightens the visiting Mr. Nuttel with a lie about her uncle, Mr. Sappleton, and his two brothers-in-law drowning in a bog. When Nuttel sees the men walking toward the house, he assumes they're ghosts who'll come in through the open window.

Eccentric hypochondriac Mr. Nuttel visits the country at the urging of his doctor. He arrives at the home of his new hosts, the Sappletons, and is received by Mrs. Sappleton's niece, Vera.

Vera tells him that her uncle and his brothers-in-law drowned in a bog three years before and that her aunt leaves the French window open because she believes they will one day return. This is a lie, of course, but Mr. Nuttel believes it.

When the men walk toward the house, Mr. Nuttel thinks they're ghosts and flees the house immediately. Vera lies about his reasons for leaving, claiming that he was once attacked by dogs in India and is afraid of the Sappletons' spaniel because of it.