Rose still pines for her childhood love, Wilmer, who drowned. She has not dated and has no desire to do so, but at the urging of her mother agrees to go to the hymn-singing with Robert, who has been asking her for years. The impetus is more her feelings for the English man, Conrad Wisner, who has aroused those feelings she once had for Wilmer--but he's English and she's Amish--verbotten! Provided by publisher.
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