Talk:The House in the Hedge

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 * The Nation, 1911 July 13: Early in the book, the winsome heroine of this little story climbs a tree. Up in the tree is a platform where Marjorie likes to read. From that exalted though rustic station she can look across the hedge that otherwise conceals the house recently rented by a mysterious stranger. The windows are open but curtained, and through the curtains comes the voice of a man entreating Marjorie to climb the tree every day and speak to him. He is reduced to asking this favor by an automobile accident, which has turned Reed Harrington, Harvard football player, poloist, oarsman, and what-not, into a recumbent figure, paralyzed below the shoulders. So Marjorie continues to climb her tree and to engage in conversation with the voice, until the invalid's shame of his helplessness passes away. Thereafter Marjorie and Harrington converse, not as through a lace curtain darkly, but face to face. Toward the end there is a successful operation, of course, and happiness comes, postponed for a few pages, by a rather foolish bit of pistol-play. The simple, straightforward narrative with its touch of school-girl slang and humor is really well done.