The Open Window: Short Story by Saki

First Meet:
Read the short Story: The Open Window by Saki

Our kids' summery:

Eric L. ( a fifth grader ): The Open Window starts with a man named Framton Nuttel who moves from the city to a rural area. His sister gives him letters of introduction to all of the people in the area whom she’s acquainted with before he moves, because he is shy and avoids excitement.
Nuttel knocks on a door of a woman called Mrs. Sappleton. When the door opens, Mrs. Sappleton’s niece comes and tells him that her aunt will be arriving shortly. They make conversation and the niece (Vera) finds out that he does not know much about any of the locals. She decides to play a trick on Framton. She invents a story about her aunt, claiming that she experienced a tragedy. In Vera’s version of her family history, her aunt’s husband and her two brothers went out to hunt when they were trapped in the bog. No one ever found their bodies, but Mrs. Sappleton always opened the window because she thought they would come back some day with the brown spaniel that had gone with them.
Mrs. Sappleton then comes into the room and starts talking about weird things, like shooting and lack of birds, and the prospect of ducks in the winter. It becomes torture for Framton, and he makes a desperate attempt to change the subject, but fails. She keeps looking at the window as if she expects her husband and brothers to come back from hunting. Time passes and then the three people come back from hunting. Framton, thinking they are ghosts, bolts from the room, taking his things with him. Everyone is baffled except Vera ,who calmly says that Framton told her that he was afraid of dogs, and that the spaniel probably scared him.

Grace (a fifth grader ): My summary is about a short story called The Open Window. It is at Mrs.Sappleton's home. A man named Framton Nuttel just moved there and was now in one of the rooms. Since Mrs.Sappleton wasn't there just yet , Vera , her niece began to speak with him. Vera talked about a tragedy three years ago. It was about an open window. Mrs.Sappleton's husband and brothers went out hunting, but they never came back. Soon after Vera had spoken, Mrs.Sappleton came bustling into the room with dozens of apologies for being late. Mrs.Sappleton also explained the open window and that her husband and brothers always went in and out that way. Suddenly, Vera had a strange look, she was looking out the open window as Mrs Sappleton's husband and brothers came back from their hunt. Framton was freaked out when they came for he thought they were ghosts and fled.When Mrs.Sappleton's husband arrived at the window he asked why Framton fled. Mrs.Sappleton said that he thought he saw a ghost.Vera replied that it was the spaniel that frightened Framton away for he once was chased by a pack of pariah dogs. That is the story of The Open Window.