The man of the desert

Hazel Radcliffe was born into the elite society of New York, a veritable treasure trove of privilege, replete with creature comforts and teeming with opportunities of all kinds. When she accompanies her family on a business trip to Arizona, her path happens to cross that of a missionary, John Brownleigh, who lives in a shanty on the great plain in the most modest of conditions. John wants desperately to be with Hazel, but vetoes the idea outright due to her apparent lack of "fitness" for the kind of circumstances in which he lives. He presumes that she would be either unwilling or unable...