Three-Legged-Ladder
Harrowing Night – Terror and Bewilderment
Elizabeth does not intend to be home alone in the rambling,
orchard house, but plans change, making way for the unthinkable.
Amusing Past – Humiliation and Veneration
Just hours after being twice humiliated by Price, the farmer’s son,
Elizabeth heeds the desperate call of three young migrants.
Suffering even greater humiliation, character rescues the rescuer.
Unpredictable Future – Despair and Amazement
Haunting Elizabeth is the intruder’s tormenting smile on a face that she shall
unwillingly encounter again. Turning to her beloved husband
she discovers that the intruder has made a stranger of him.
Right is now wrong, wrong is right, and together is alone.