Summary

Chapter 6: Oliver did not patent his cement formula so others could eventually claim it and profit from it. He feels he has failed her and does not like it she has to pay her own train fare home. Susan had to leave Lizzie and Marian behind in the West. Lizzie marries a rancher and has five children. Marian goes to the Sandwich Islands and marries a sugar planter and lives on a beach.

Susan plans how to make her coming home seem like more of a triumph than a complete failure. She will tell her family Oliver’s opportunity to go to Deadwood could not be missed and she seized the opportunity to visit home. She arrives home weary, but happy to be there. All it lacks she says is Augusta. Augusta, however has taken Thomas abroad because he has had a breakdown from...