A small boarding house is unsettled when an unremarkable new lodger is discovered to be inexplicably covered with live spiders that move onto cloth and skin. A long‑time salesman observes how the newcomer quietly charms a blind young woman while a mentally fragile boarder insists he has seen the arachnids and becomes alarmed for her safety. The tale shifts between mild domestic comedy and creeping unease as neighbors argue over belief, protection, and propriety, building to a darkly whimsical resolution that reveals an unsettling personal explanation for the lodger’s condition.