Description
The secluded old apple orchard in which Eric Marshall, a young Canadian, finds the beautiful, though dumb, Kilmeny, is on Prince Edward Island. Eric is the son of a wealthy man and had come to a small village on the island to teach school for a month as a substitute for a sick friend. In one of his rambles he comes upon the old orchard, and hearing strains of music is tempted to investigate. He finds Kilmeny alone playing a violin. At sight of him the girl rushes away. The young man, however, is fascinated by her beauty and loses no time in finding out how he can make her acquaintance . . .
There’s a stain on Kilmeny’s birth – her mother married a man who turned out to be married previously (it was an honest mistake – perhaps the first wife was thought to be dead?) so Kilmeny was illegitimate because the second marriage was void. This is mentioned once.