In terms of the plot of the novel it is obvious that the story consists of three parts, each of them presents the logic changing of the events and the intensification of them. I would like to introduce the features of the plot in such a way.

The 1^st part of the novel is more likely the exposition and complication where we can see:

·        The description of the nature, the farm and its masters (“The house itself was big and broad, as country houses should be. The master was big and broad, too. The mistress was small and thin, and it was always she who went out at noon to pull the great clanging bell that called the farmhands in to dinner.”)

·        The girl, hiding from the urban society (“To be sure, clever young women of twenty, who are handsome, besides, who have refused their half dozen offers and are settling down to the conviction that life is a tedious affair, are not going to care a straw whether farmhands look at them or not….”)

·        The relationship between Mildred and Mrs Kraummer (to prove it – it is their conversation)

·        The moment when Mildred notices the young fellow (“But once when the half dozen men came along, a paper which she had laid carelessly upon the railing was blown across their path. One of them picked it up, and when he had mounted the steps restored it to her. He was young, and brown, of course, as the sun had made him.”)

The last point becomes turning and leads us to the 2^nd part of the novel, which, as for me, is the climax of the story:

·        Mildred goes for a walk deliberately – to meet the young fellow (“In the woods it was sweet and solemn and cool. And there beside the river was the wretch who had annoyed her, first, with his indifference, then with the sudden boldness of his glance.”)

·        They meet when the man is fishing (“"Are you fishing?" she asked politely and with kindly dignity, which she supposed would define her position toward him. The inquiry lacked not pertinence, seeing that he sat motionless, with a pole in his hand and his eyes fixed on a cork that bobbed aimlessly on the water……."Yes, madam," was his brief reply.”)

·        They kiss and he leaves her (“Then, why ever it happened, or how ever it happened, his arms were holding Mildred and he kissed her lips. She did not know if it was ten times or only once.”)

Then we come to the 3d part of the story – reversal and resolution:

·        Mildred is confused, can’t calm down (“And because she feared not to forget it, Mildred wept that night. All day long a hideous truth had been thrusting itself upon her that made her ask herself if she could be mad. She feared it.”)

·        She receives the letter but doesn’t find the appeasing (“Mildred tried to think to feel that the intelligence which this letter brought to her would take somewhat of the sting from the shame that tortured her. But it did not. She knew that it could not.”)

·        She tries to find calming talking to the “reason” of her suffering, but she fails (“"Some day," she repeated, almost inaudibly, looking seemingly through him, but not at him "some day perhaps; when I shall have forgiven myself."…….. He stood motionless, watching her slim, straight figure lessening by degrees as she walked slowly away from him. He was wondering what she meant. Then a sudden, quick wave came beating into his brown throat and staining it crimson, when he guessed what it might be.”)

Then we see her leaving him. He is absolutely led astray. He is in despair. The reader is also confused, it seems the author persuades us to invent our own finishing of the story.