Where did it happen?

Is it really necessary to know about the setting? Well, I guess "yep".That house!!! ....something strange is in that house, mysterious, unpredicted

One the one hand, for the main character this place is something beautiful, this place reminds her little paradise."The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people." She likes the garden, she is really happy to have it "There is a delicious garden! I never saw such a garden -large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them."

On the othe hand she is afraid about the house: "There was some legal trouble, I believe, something about the heirs and coheirs; anyhow, the place has been empty for years."

It's interesting to mention, that the author gives a deep description of the room in which the main character constantly is:"It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls. The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it.  It is stripped off--the paper--in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down. I never saw a worse paper in my life"The description of this room shows us that woman easily going crazy day after day when being at the room.