At twenty-five years of age, Anna Eicher has never married.
Now the owner of the largest dairy farm in his church district, Freman has neither married--nor forgi.
Eight years later Freman has returned to visit his sister, who is renting the Eichers\' house for the winter.
Afterward, a distraught Freman moved away from Lancaster County.
When she was seventeen, her parents convinced her to break off her courtship with Freman Whittmore, the youngest son in the Whittmore family and her best friend.
At twenty-five years of age, Anna Eicher has never married