Nobody knows what starts the sap running along the twigs of a very young, tender and springlike woman's nature. In Betty's case, it is Samuel Foster Crittenden -- even though she hardly realizes it. She leaves America for a traipse across... Read More

The problem is that David Kildare's friend Andrew is the one doing the trick of catching Phoebe's eye -- while... Read More

Rose Mary of Sweetbriar has no idea how to accomplish the impossible -- how, for instance, to put some of that rich, black oil into the rocks underlying the valley, so that Mark Everett will not have to go back to New York empty-handed,... Read More

'You don't expect me to discuss our garden with an ignorant bucolic Methodist minister, who probably doesn't know a honeysuckle from a jimson weed, do you?'

I said this with rising rage, then faltered -- for I was interrupted by... Read More