He will be free--and then?
What shall he do then?
What shall we all do?
That is my problem." She went on to explain.

This was the situation: Her own income was barely sufficient for Barbara and herself to live, in the frugal way they were living, in a country town like Orham.

That was why she had decided to remain there.

No one in the village knew her story or the story of her brother's disgrace.

But now, almost any day, her brother might be discharged from prison.