Summary
A pastoral idyll, once vibrant with youthful promise, shatters for a naive village lass during a fateful sojourn to the urban labyrinth of Boston. There, an encounter with a predatory male leaves her spirit defiled and her innocence irrevocably tarnished, compelling a retreat to her rural sanctuary, burdened by a profound sense of ignominy. Years later, a former suitor, his European sojourn completed, re-emerges, his affections undimmed, reigniting a dormant flame within her. Their mutual devotion blossoms, culminating in an engagement, yet an insidious specter of her past looms, rendering the confession of her profound secret an agonizing ordeal. When the truth, finally wrested from her tormented soul, is laid bare, the ensuing patriarchal judgment from her beloved threatens to irrevocably sunder their nascent happiness, plunging their shared future into an abyss of tragic uncertainty.
Synopsis
On a visit to the city of Boston, a village girl is taken advantage of by a man there and returns home feeling sullied and ashamed. A young man who had once sought her hand returns from years away in Europe and reiterates his suit. She returns his love and agrees to marry him, but has difficulty telling him the truth about her misadventure. When she finally does, his response seems to doom the pair to tragedy.
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