Summer's heroine is Charity Royall, foster child of one of her small, rural New England village's leading citizens, Lawyer Royall. Charity is just that, a charity-child, brought into the village from the nearby "Mountain", a loose community of social outcasts.
Summer's heroine is Charity Royall, foster child of one of her small, rural New England village's leading citizens, Lawyer Royall. Charity is just that, a charity-child, brought into the village from the nearby "Mountain", a loose community of social outcasts.