Installment 1: Strange Prosperity. Peel back the yellow-budded wallpaper. On these panels someone wrote of sullen lives, sealed secrets, gossip, false charm, jealousy and rivalling ancestors...all behind the fantasy facade of a recluse's delight that retains its 19th century quirkiness. Mrs. Damask Faggit, spinster and inheritor of the family's walls, entranced the leathery house into a sprightly boarding house for a few, rare eccentrics who pass no eye of scrutiny upon her ambrosial life. This nippy introduction is your calling card to tarnished romance. Short, vintage village story in a series of parts.