When Richard Sayles visits his old friend Julian Blair at his large, rambling mansion in Barsham Harbor, he finds a man who has changed terribly since their university days together. For years Julian has been obsessed by the memory of his dead wife Helen, an obsession that has finally brought him to the borders of insanity. Somehow he dreams of re-establishing contact with her Indeed he never mentions her as if she were dead at all. And now Julian, a brilliant electrophysicist , is certain that ...