When the five-year-old Rosamond Furnivall is orphaned, she, and her nurse Hester, are invited to live at Furnivall Manor. When they both begin to hear strange organ music and see a small child out in the snow, the tragic history of the Furnivall's is recounted to the old nurse.

First published in Household Words, Christmas 1852. Reprinted in:

• Ghosts (1981)
• The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories, ed. J. A. Cuddon, Penguin 1984
• Book of the Dead (1986)
• The Twelve Frights of Christmas, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh, Avon 1986
• The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, ed. Richard Dalby, Virago 1988
• Ghosts: A Classic Collection, ed. Anon., Morris Plains, NJ: Unicorn Pub. House 1989
• Victorian Ghost Stories, ed. Michael Cox & R. A. Gilbert, Oxford University Press 1991
• The Lifted Veil, ed. A. Susan Williams, Xanadu 1992
• Horror by Lamplight, ed. Anon., Chancellor Press 1993
• 4 Classic Ghostly Tales, ed. Anita Miller, Academy Chicago 1993
• The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women, ed. A. Susan Williams, Penguin 1995
• Great Ghost Stories, ed. Anon., London: Reader’s Digest Association Limited 1997
• Gothic Short Stories (2002)