eBook downloaded from [...]Adam gives deceitful Ottila one year to become the woman she pretended to be or he will end their engagement. Meanwhile, spending time with another friend, he falls in love with generous and virtuous Sylvia.Alcott's saccharine praise of "modest womanhood" gets old, and both Adam and Sylvia are one-note characters that did not hold my interest. I only lasted about a third of the way through this very preachy tale.