Why Weeps The Willow

Local gossip said the burned out cottage at the edge of the marshes, and the stretch of beach that lay in front of it, was haunted. By the ghost of a girl who used to live there, but who set fire to it one day, then deliberately walked into the sea to drown herself, when someone let it be known that the lover she had lived there with had betrayed her with another woman, before abandoning her completely, by going off to fight on the battlefields of First World War France. Dying there as well, so local gossip said.
Local gossip didn’t say who the woman had been, or the name of the soldier who had treated her so badly, because it didn’t know, but there were at least two women and a man still living in the village who did.
And soon another man, newly arrived in the village, was going to know too.