Section 3 Summary (pages 22-45)

The reader is introduced to Rose Brady and her relationship with Moran. She had left a domestic position in Glasgow, Scotland, to return to her family and help nurse her dying father. She visited the post office one evening and found a group of people all waiting for the evening mail. Michael Moran, Sr., was among them. She knew of him, hearing 'dark mutterings' about him, as a widower raising his children. She found him intelligent and attentive until the mail was being sorted and his attention turned to each letter being handled.

Rose decided to make a habit of joining the evening mail group and making conversation with Moran. The locals soon noticed and began to gossip about her making a fool of herself for love. Moran raises the possibility of introducing another woman into the household with...