The author’s introduction to this novel uses “the outcropping granite” to exemplify the oft-overlooked harsh beauty of its setting, whose people have a “deep-rooted reticence and inarticulateness.” In this novel, a man realizes that his wife’s condition is serious when she grimly says she has “complications” and not mere “troubles.” That man in this novel contemplates how fast 50 years of marriage could pass by while looking at the headstone of an ancestor of the same name. During a dinner of doughnuts and stewed blueberries in this novel, a woman wearing a crimson ribbon in her hair (10[1])accidentally touches a man’s hand as they both reach for a milk jug. (10[2])In this novel, Mrs. Hale says it is a pity that woman didn’t die, as her lover “might (10[1])ha’ lived.” For 10 points, Mattie Silver (10[3])sleds (10[3])into a (10[1])tree (10[8]-5[1])with the (10[1])title (10[1])character of what novel by Edith Wharton? ■END■