The Grey Room

At the fireside, Henry Lennox watches his cousin Mary hold her husband’s hand—and rises when her father calls him away to the billiard table. Some loves arrive too late; at Chadlands, another kind of danger may be waiting behind a closed door.

As autumn dusk settles over the English estate, Sir Walter Lennox welcomes a house party to his ancient manor. His daughter Mary is newly married to Tom May, a spirited sailor, while Henry must live with the love he never confessed in time. Beneath the warm firesides and country-house rituals, the guests’ attention turns to the Grey Room, shadowed by an old tragedy. When Tom takes up the challenge to spend the night there, a weekend gathering begins to feel less like a game. What will the Grey Room make of its latest visitor?

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