Summary

Chapter 3: Susan has Lizzie deal with any of the men from the camp who bring wood or do chores for them. Susan works on a commission from a publisher to do the drawings for The Scarlet Letter to help her pass the time. She uses Lizzie as her model for Hester Prynne. Lizzie is more at home here than Susan is and has made friends with the women in the camp. Oliver brings a new engineer to dinner. He is Austrian and he and Susan spend the evening discussing art and literature. Susan is perturbed that Oliver says little. Oliver later tells her that Kendall wants to make the man Oliver’s assistant, but Oliver thinks him better for supper parties than a mine. Oliver had to push him out of the way of falling debris when he paid no attention to the call...