Contents
Emily Grant Hutchings
Prologue
I
Lavinia
3
II
Calvin
6
III
David
12
Book One: Spring
IV
Vine Cottage
21
V
Judith Goes West
26
VI
The Trench Children
32
VII
Lavinia Pays a Call
43
VIII
Hal Marksley Intrudes
53
IX
News from Bromfield
61
X
Eileen Seeks Counsel
65
XI
Vicarious Living
76
XII
The Poem Judith Read
84
XIII
Eyes Turned Homeward
93
XIV
A Broken Axle
101
XV
Masked Benefaction
109
XVI
Coming Storm
120
XVII
A Place Called Bromfield
131
Book Two: Summer
XVIII
Sylvia
139
XIX
A Web in the Moonlight
146
XX
Red Dawn
153
XXI
The Cloud on the Horizon
158
XXII
Midsummer Magic
164
XXIII
Lavinia Sees the Abyss
173
XXIV
One Way Out
177
XXV
A Wedding at Vine Cottage
183
XXVI
The Light Within
193
XXVII
David’s Children
198
XXVIII
Indian Summer
205
XXIX
The Truth that is Clean
211
XXX
Katharsis
216
XXXI
A New Hilltop
224
Book Three: Belated Frost
XXXII
Lavinia Flounders
231
XXXIII
The Statue and the Bust
237
XXXIV
Lavinia’s Credo
248
XXXV
The Credo at Work
256
XXXVI
Consummation
263
XXXVII
In the “Personal” Column
268
XXXVIII
The Greater Love
274
XXXIX
Lavinia
282
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