A light-hearted account, not quite up to Mr. Hay’s best, of a love story, a yachting trip in the Mediterranean, and a ghostly adventure obviously intended to be farcical. The pains and difficulties of being amiable with one's fellow-travellers has never been more vividly revealed, and the hero’s plight provides much innocent amusement. One of the guests on the yacht insists on teaching the others Morris dances. Another is a boasting fool. One of the young girls has a chronic cold, a distressing sense of humour, and as she is a persistent fisherman is always bedraggled and laden with unpleasant bait. There are also a mischief-maker, a tiresome flirt, some bridge fiends and a host who makes everyone's life a burden with his schedules, time-tables, drills and general efficiency campaign. Apparitions and wonders are necessary to cure them of their worst traits, and to bring about an engagement between the narrator and a lovely but nebulous lady.