It was first published in July 1926, in Harper's Bazaar and subsequently appeared in the first volume of Lawrence's collected short stories.
Although outwardly successful, she is haunted by a sense of failure; her husband is a ne'er-do-well, and her work as a commercial artist does not earn as much as she would like.
Her children, a son Paul and his two sisters, sense this anxiety; they even claim they can hear the house whispering "There must be more money".
Paul tells his Uncle Oscar Cresswell about betting on horse races with Bassett, the gardener.
He has been spending hours riding his rocking horse, sometimes all night long, until he "gets there", into a clairvoyant state where he can be sure of the winner's name.