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A short story that toys with contrasting tones is Saki's
"The Open Window."  This story-within-a-story involves a frame story in which Mr.
Nuttel, who is recovering from a nervous breakdown, arrives in the country for a rest at
Mrs. Sappleton's house.  While Mr. Nuttel's tone is polite all through his dialogues
with the niece who is sent out to entertain him while he awaits the hostess, the niece,
who is ironically name Vera, is a rebellious and disrespectful child.  However, she
cloaks this disrespect in her seemingly polite language as she tells
Framton,

My
aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel,...in the meantime you must try and put up with
me.

Here she means the
opposite since she finds this nervous little man
silly.

 After ascertaining Framton's ignorance of the area,
Vera launches into a tall tale about her aunt's "great tragedy" that happened three
years ago.  She uses the open window, which suggests honesty, as the focal point of the
story, saying that Mrs. Sappleton's son and husband never returned from a hunting trip
after going out this large window.

This rebellious child
feigns sorrow as she says,

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'Poor aunt always thinks that they will come
back some day, they and the little brown spaniel that was lost with them, and walk in at
that window just as they used to do. Poor dear aunt, she has often told me how they went
out, her husband with his white waterproof coat...Do you know, sometimes on still, quiet
evenings like this, I almost get a creepy feeling that they will walk in through that
window--'

She broke off with a little
shudder.

In complete
disrespect of the soon approaching Mrs. Sappleton, Vera continues her tall tale.  When
Mrs. Sappleton does arrive she asks, with dramatic irony, "I hope Vera has been amusing
you?"

The only one amused is this rebellious child who has
disrespectfully mocked the sensitivity of Framton and the truth of Mrs. Sappleton who
explains, then, that the men of her family will soon return from hunting and come in the
open window in order to keep the rugs clean.

When the men
do appear, the mischievous and ironic tone of Vera become apparent to the reader, but,
unwittingly, Mrs. Sappleton and Mr. Framton have been made the butt of her rebellious
tall-tale. Ignorant of this joke, Mrs. Sappleton says in a supercilious
tone,

'A most
extraordinary man, a Mr. Nuttel,..could only talk about his illnesses, and dashed off
whithout a word of goobye or apology when you arrived. One whould think he had seen a
ghost [more drmamatic
irony].'

Vera--whose name
belies who true nature--creates another fabrication, calmly
saying,

'I
expect it was the spaniel...he told me he had a horror of
dogs...

Humorously, Saki
concludes, "Romance at short notice was
specialty."