What is the summary of the story "THE OPEN WINDOW"
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Frampton Nuttel is the main character of the story. He reached out to the countryside to get cured of his disease. The story opened in a house where a girl was attending to her guest in the absence of her aunt.
She was a girl of fifteen years. He was apprehensive if he could find a cure for his nerve disease. He thought of his sister who advised and sent him to the countryside with a letter of introduction. She was skeptical of his improvement in health unless he visits a quiet and peaceful place.
After a few minutes of silence, the girl inquired if he knew anyone in the surrounding. He gently answered that he was new to the place and it was his sister who stayed there about four years ago. He also spoke in a regretful tone about the reference letter.
The girl tried to confirm if he really didn’t know the people around. Frampton pondered about the state of Mrs. Sappleton while looking around in the room. The girl started concocting a story about Mrs.
Sappleton that her husband and two brothers with spaniel went for hunting. They did not return. Their bodies were not found. That’s why she kept the French window open.
She often told her that her husband would enter with a waterproof coat over his arm and Ronnie her youngest brother would sing ‘Bertie, who do you bound?’ to tease her.
She further added that even she started believing. Then entered Mrs. Sappleton asking for forgiveness of delay. She was certain that Vera must have entertained him with her craft of telling stories.
She informed him about her family members who went out for shooting for snipe in the Marshes. She was worried about her carpet as they would spoil that with muddy shoes.
She kept on saying about the scarcity of birds and prospects for duck in the winter. Frampton was on his nerves when he related the two stories of the ladies of the house.
Frampton called it an unfortunate coincidence that he visited on the anniversary of such a tragic ailments. He told her that the doctor’s advised him to take complete rest, and to avoid anything in ‘the nature of violent physical exercise’.
Mrs. Sappleton’s eyes were anxiously waiting for her husband and then came shine in her eyes when she saw them approaching. Through the most horrified Frampton looked at Vera and stared at the window.
Three figures entered walking across the lawn towards the window carrying their arms. Then her brother teased her again by saying ‘Bertie, why do you bound?’.
Terrified with unnamed fear Frampton picked up his things and went away almost colliding with a cyclist.
Mrs. Sappleton told her husband about Mr. Nuttel about who asked at sudden withdrawal. Mrs. Sappleton was also taken aback at such a gesture. Vera explained that once he had experienced a horror of dogs.
He was once hunted into a cemetery and had to spend a night there. The story ended at the brevity and storytelling quality of the girl.
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