The events in this novel take place in Narragansett, where the Kraummer’s farm is situated. There is nothing fantastic about the setting as it present the real farm, its masters, nature, people working here. So the setting is rather realistic. The young girl is depicted here as an fragile thing. Firstly we see an excellent presentation of the beauty of the nature surrounding the farm. Weather conditions help to describe the situation in such poetic way: “This was no such farm as one reads about in humorous fiction. Here were swelling acres where the undulating wheat gleamed in the sun like a golden sea. For silver there was the Meramec or, better, it was pure crystal, for here and there one might look clean through it down to where the pebbles lay like green and yellow gems….” . It is also interesting how the author draws the oppositions between the surrounding nature, the house or the farm and the master of the house: “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…”. So we see usual description of the life of ordinary people.