Virtually deserted by her mother, Mattie finds her way into the home of an influential doctor, hired to take care of his daughter. She learns about life and medicine in that home and eventually goes off on her own to practice medicine on the Nebraska plains. Her story unfolds around the hardshi...
Atwater arrived about five o’clock. “Susan,” he said, approaching the couch where she still sat, “so good of you to let me come by at a time like this.” Susan was taken back. He had the shoe on the wrong foot. It was good of him to come by, but she didn’t know how to say that. And she was afraid,...