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Williamsburg, Virginia, is once more the scene of Miss Thane's story, as it was in Dawn's Early Light, and Grandmother Day, who was sixteen when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, is now ninety-five. Once, she can remember, it was Massachusetts that was threatening to secede instead of South Carolina. And when she was a girl they never seemed to think much about Yankees, one way or the other. Therefore, when a Yankee comes to Williamsburg in the tense autumn of 1860 and red-haired Eden Day falls head over heels in love with him, her great-grandmother takes the long view - besides, she likes him herself. Here is action, here is romance, and here is the vanished world recreated.