Ernestine, a gifted painter, astonishes everyone, herself included, by promising to marry Karl, a scientist absorbed in his laboratory work in Chicago. Their marriage brings together two very different kinds of devotion, and when misfortune strikes, each must discover how much of their own calling they will give for the other.
The 1909 first novel of Susan Glaspell, later a Pulitzer-winning playwright and a founder of the Provincetown Players. Download the free EPUB.