Summary
A maelstrom of possessive suspicion propels Rufus Asher into a dramatic, morally ambiguous act: the abduction of Barbara Wier. Convinced she conspires with his sister's husband, Edmund Hyde, Asher forcibly removes Barbara to a secluded mountain redoubt, a stark stage for their ensuing confrontation. There, in a moment born of fright and misidentification, Barbara, mistaking her captor for a mere vagabond, discharges a firearm, wounding Asher. This violent incident paradoxically inaugurates a period of forced intimacy, as she diligently tends to his injuries. During this crucible of convalescence, the intricate machinations behind the initial misunderstanding unravel: Barbara and Edmund were, in fact, orchestrating an intervention, a desperate gambit to prevent Edmund's wife from eloping with another man, Hugh Langley, thus revealing a profound tapestry of misguided judgment and an unexpected genesis of connection.
Synopsis
When Rufus Asher suspects that Barbara Wier is plotting with his sister's husband, Edmund Hyde, he abducts Barbara and takes her to a lonely mountain retreat. Mistaking Rufus for a vagabond, Barbara shoots him, then nurses him back to health, explaining that she and Edmund were trying to stop an elopement of Edmund's wife with another man, Hugh Langley.
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