The family did not expect a visitor that night as it was cold and wet and the wind was howling outside.

Herbert wanted Mr White to wish for two hundred pounds so that they could pay off for their house.

The stranger had come from the company “Maw and Meggins” where Herbert, Mr and Mrs White’s son worked.

The mother wanted the father to wish for their dead son Herbert to return to them.

Mr White was not letting go of Mrs White because he believed that instead of their son Herbert, a terrible creature had returned to them from death.