The next character is a farmhand, young fellow Fred. He is handsome (“He was young, and brown, of course, as the sun had made him. He had nice blue eyes. His fair hair was disheveled. His shoulders were broad and square and his limbs strong and clean. A not unpicturesque figure in the rough attire that bared his throat to view and gave perfect freedom to his every motion”).  He is in some way curious (only he picked up the letter). He is kind (“he has a heart of gold, if he is the first crank in America”), bu he is not so clever for Mildred (“He doesn't read 'in books' says they are spectacles for the shortsighted to look at life through”). He is still looking for himself (“Last year he chose to drive an engine back and forth across the plains. This year he tills the soil with laborers. Next year it will be something else as insane because he likes to live more lives than one kind, and other Quixotic reasons”). We see that firstly he doesn’t pay any attention to Mildred, but then he kisses her and leaves her. All in all they meet again and ask the girl if she forgets him and forgive him. But Mildred is so odd that she breaks off ties between them and runs. He is absolutely confused.

We also here Mrs Kraummer, mistress of the house. She is kind to Mildred. Judging by her surname and the way she speaks I can guess that she is a German.