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An abandoned Missouri farmhouse draws crowds when the vine covering it starts to move without wind.
Separated from his wife, a man wandering a country road sees an impossible light and a familiar figure.
A hunter spends the night in an abandoned gulch cabin and hears a struggle he cannot see.
Two eager parents try to trap a schoolteacher into marrying their daughter, but their sacred evidence is less reliable than they think.
A newly married couple’s perfect evening at a country station ends when an unexpected trainload recognizes them.
A practical railway guard hires a matchmaker and explains, in exact detail, the wife required for his future happiness.
A tipsy bridegroom regales a railway compartment with his philosophy of happiness while searching for the coach where his new wife waits.
A wealthy lover tries to settle an adulterous triangle with cash, only to discover that affection cannot be bought.
A married woman tries to end a friend’s pursuit, only to discover that her principles are less secure than his attention makes them seem.
A bored husband reads his wife’s rambling letter and lectures her ignorance, exposing a contradiction in what he expects from women.
A sheltered young woman mistakes theatrical passion for real love and follows a touring actor into his brutal world.
Fresh from Crimea, a young wife condemns her companion’s holiday flirtation while describing her own trip in increasingly revealing detail.
A married young woman crosses the river at night to meet an idle village watchman, knowing the morning will demand an answer.
An impoverished young bride enters a joyless marriage, then discovers that beauty can confer a power her husband never expected.
An anonymous love letter sends a respectable married man to a garden rendezvous, where an unexpected rival refuses to leave.
Five rainy days without her husband send a devoted young wife into town, where his empty flat raises an unwelcome question.
A hotel waiter misplaces a piano-tuner’s boots, sending their anxious owner into an increasingly dangerous mix-up.
A self-declared man of violent temper tries to study dog licences while a determined young woman assigns him a romance.
A colonel’s widow demands protection from a scandalous hotel guest, then learns one detail that changes her view.
A nervous wife sees a man enter through the kitchen window and sends her sleepy husband into the dark to defend the household’s virtue.
A man tries to explain why the ordinary habits that once irritated him become forgivable when they belong to the woman he loves.
An opera star’s quiet night is interrupted by a husband whose grand business plans always require her money.
A weary court official reaches his summer villa hungry for dinner and rest, only to find that family life has no place ready for him.
A merchant’s self-righteous tale about an orphan’s mother forces two unhappy village women to consider the limits of obedience.
