Samuel Pickens, a blue blood from Connecticut's Gold Coast, narrates this tale of obsession, lust and love from his home within the walls of the Forbidden City. Pickens fell in love with his headmaster's daughter, but she tragically died. Visited by her ghost, Pickens had to return her body to China.
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