[1] Jenny, the heroine of the story, is an 18 year old orphan, who spends her life daydreaming.

Her mind is occupied with an imaginary conversation when she absent-mindedly walks into her old home, now let to a respectable, middle-aged couple.

Jenny finds, on the floor, the body of her long-lost Aunt Jane, and suddenly realises that she is in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In 1936 it was adapted into a film of the same title by the American studio Universal Pictures.

Directed by Sidney Salkow it starred Kenneth Howell, Martha Sleeper and Alan Mowbray.