Time at the TopAfter a confusing encounter with a strange old woman, Susan Shaw enters the apartment elevator to ride as usual to the top floor. At the top, the elevator keeps on rising and Susan finds herself in another time and place--in the nineteenth century in the home of two children who need her help in solving a problem. |
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