The newly orphaned Rose, a twelve-year-old village girl, is taken in by John Howlett giving her a place to live and providing his sickly son a companion. The Howletts mansion is extravagant, but is marked with tragedy. Johns father, a self-made millionaire, despises his sons soft treatment of the help. Johns wife, Elizabeth, lives upstairs, secluded from the rest of the family. She apparently struggles with mental illness.Rose soon becomes close friend with James and Dog Logan, the caretaker Thomas Logans son. Thomas Logan, however, is as much a classist as Johns father and resents Johns kindness to him and his son. He takes out his anger and frustration by beating his son with the slightest provocations.
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