Tryst (novel)

While a quick summary may make it sound like a horror novel, it actually borders on mystery and romance.

Set against the background of a world on the brink of war and published before World War II began, the story takes a look at people who hold principles higher than their own lives, truths that might better have been kept secret, and throws light on the life of the upper class in the course of a seemingly light trifle of a romantic ghost story.

Sabrina Archer, a shy, retiring young woman moves to a gloomy looking house in the country with her father and aunt.

The father is a professor completely wrapped up in himself and his work to the exclusion of the needs of anyone else, and sprang the move on his womenfolk without notice.

Sabrina is drawn to a locked room, which belongs to Hilary, the younger son of the owners.