Summer

Charitycomes from poverty and is taken in by the wealthy and successfulLawyer Royallwhen she is five years old.Lawyerdevelops a romantic interest inCharityafter his wife dies, but things go awry. First whenLawyerloses drunken control and enters her bedroom when she is seventeen and then again in response to the apparent love between her and the already betrothed young architect,Lucius Harney. A predictable result of her actions forces her to make some difficult choices.