Richard Digby, the gloomiest of a stern Puritan brotherhood, decides that no one but himself is fit for heaven and retires to a cave in the wilderness with his Bible. When Mary Goffe, a gentle woman he once knew, comes through the forest to plead with him, he waves her away as a sinner.
A short, pointed parable from Hawthorne about the hardness of a heart that will admit no one else. Download the free EPUB.