James Holcroft, a widowed farmer left alone on his land, cannot keep house and farm together. After a disastrous trial of the talkative housekeeper Mrs. Mumpson, he proposes a practical marriage to Alida, a gentle woman with a sad story of her own, and the two begin a careful partnership that slowly becomes more than either expected.
Warm domestic fiction by one of the most widely read American novelists of the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.