"Andrew had quit the Navy soon after the war and came out here to Madison College to teach, and his wife had died and he didn't know what to do with his daughter.

Edna Kelton was a little headstrong, I reckon, and wanted her own way.

She didn't like living in a country college town; there wasn't anything here to interest her.

I won't tell you all of Andrew's story, but it boils down to just this, that while Edna was in New York studying music she got married without telling where, or to whom.

Andrew never saw her till she was dying in a hospital and had a little girl with her,--that's Sylvia.