Eliza also discovers that there are no parents or guardians in sight, and the people in the village become downright uncomfortable when Eliza brings up this delicate topic.
When Eliza arrives, she finds two precocious children: 12-year-old Isabella and 8-year-old Eustace, both bright and both very strange. The oddness begins when she finds out that the advert she’d responded to in the paper was placed by the previous governess rather than by the parents of the two children at Gaudlin Hall. She rather impulsively decides to leave her position as a teacher of young girls in London and pursue a governess’s position in Norfolk. It’s 1867, and teacher and narrator Eliza Caine is grieving the recent death of her father. Standard gothic fare, from the frisson of cold hands on one’s throat to creepy ghosts.
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