The Samuel H. Kress Collection at the University of Arizona

"Grace Eberly is a sensible, middle-aged American schoolmistress who 'collected pleasant meories as some people collect butterflies' and tried to take a trip abroad every summer. Her character is undermined by frustration, by the longing for the love she has never known. Deceived by an inhuman Italian doctor, the tragedy rises to a climax of horror in the sultry heat of a Roman summer."