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Back from the War, Mister H. has returned a decorated veteran.
Blind, half-lamed, and an absolute terror to any help unfortunate enough to accept employment under his roof.
They arrive with a twinkle in their eye and leave in tears, their belongings half-spilling out of hastily packed luggage.Rose has seen most of New York’s promises and learned the cost behind each of them. Independent and stubbornly determined never to live on charity again, she finds herself still painfully far from affording admission to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and further still from the life she intends to claim for herself.
Just as prospects begin to dwindle, an offer appears almost too generous to believe: thirty-five dollars a week to serve as personal help to a reclusive veteran in the countryside.The pay is too absurd to be real. But who is she to look a gift horse in the mouth?
After all… he cannot even see her.