In which the genteel folk of Gopher Prairie put a new tailor of artistic, sensitive bearing under the town’s sharp scrutiny, while Mrs Kennicott, caught between sympathy and social caution, discovers unexpected companionship in a young teacher and the misunderstood Erik Valborg. As the humming Sunday service drones on, the town’s narrowness and her own restless fancy set the stage for whispered ambitions of a Little Theatre and the delicate stirrings of a spirit out of place on Main Street.