Picture a cozy cottage nestled in the Pennsylvania mountains where a hard-working and virtuous young brother and sister live in quiet contentment. Add a love-struck doctor who is too timid to tell Norine, the sister, how much he adores her! He is about to announce his love when fate brings a stranger into their home, to be nursed back to health by the impressionable Norine. As the story unfolds, we learn the true natures of all we encounter. There are exciting twists and turns and not a few coincidental interventions! Will love and virtue triumph? Written in the late 19th century, this book reflects and reinforces the attitudes of the time. Virtue is lauded and slander is to be avoided. Still, Norine and her brother Jim are more fully developed characters than appear in similar books of the period. Jim, in particular, is consider "eccentric", yet well respected by his community. Chapter One - A Mountain Storm Chapter Two - A Mountain Maiden Chapter Three - In the Way of History Chapter Four - Lettie Alan Chapter Five -The Stranger's Convalescence Chapter Six - Clinton's Story Chapter Seven - I Have Lost Her Chapter Eight - Norine's Wedding Chapter Nine - Mixed Happiness Chapter Ten - Unmixed Misery Chapter Eleven - Norine's Position Chapter Twelve - Conway's Visitor Chapter Thirteen - A Rising Young Man Chapter Fourteen - Elwell's Divorce Chapter Fifteen - Fanny Morain Chapter Sixteen -Aunt Mary's Answer Chapter Seventeen - A Vigorous Assault Chapter Eighteen - A Successful Speculation Chapter Nineteen - A Change of Base Chapter Twenty - The Meeting Chapter Twenty-One - Contentment Chapter Twenty-Two -An Unwelcome Visitor Chapter Twenty-Three - Peter Shows His Hand Chapter Twenty-Four - In the Summer Time Chapter Twenty-Five -Elwell's Popularity Chapter Twenty-Six - A Bomb Chapter Twenty-Seven - Our Congressman Elect Chapter Twenty-Eight - Old Friends Chapter Twenty-Nine - Closing In Chapter Thirty -How Elwell Escaped Chapter Thirty-One - The Two Widows Chapter Thirty-Two - Norine's Christmas Present
