Harrowing Night - Terror and Bewilderment Elizabeth does not intend to be home alone in the rambling, orchard house, but plans change, making way for the unthinkable. Amusing Past - Humiliation and Veneration Just hours after being twice humiliated by Price, the farmer's son, Elizabeth heeds the desperate call of three young migrants. Suffering even greater humiliation, character rescues the rescuer. Unpredictable Future - Despair and Amazement Haunting Elizabeth is the intruder's tormenting smile on a face that she shall unwillingly encounter again. Turning to her beloved husband she discovers that the intruder has made a stranger of him. Right is now wrong, wrong is right, and together is alone. Follow Elizabeth north from her cherished potato growing community to the orchards of northwest Michigan, where the harvest reaps far more than plump, red cherries.