Six years after her father’s death, Holly is nearing her eighteenth birthday in a sleepy Southern household when the calm of her days is broken. A Northerner named Winthrop arrives, and courtship between the two regions follows. Its picture of the old South, slaves and all, carries the racial attitudes of 1900.
A gentle period romance by an author better known for boys’ school stories, best read as a document of its moment. Download the free EPUB.