Thirty-six-year-old David Whitstone, former Federal Revenue Agent in Memphis, now a farmer in pre-electrified rural Mississippi, where he has managed to light up his house against the odds, finds himself in a position he may have desired for some time, and been a party in creating its necessity - that of savior to his isolated neighbor, twenty-one-year-old Glory Holding, who as a girl secretly thought of him as a shining knight in a magic electric house. Now she and her two-year-old son and baby daughter have been abandoned by her husband, Henry, during dangerous flooding. It's November,...