Indian Summer

Indian Summer,
novel by Howells, published in 1886.

Theodore Colville, a middle-aged Indiana publisher, goes to Florence for a vacation and there meets his boyhood acquaintance Evalina Bowen, now a middle-aged widow, and her young friend Imogene Graham. Imogene's sympathy is aroused when she learns that Colville had been disappointed in love, and her pity leads to their engagement. She then falls in love with a young clergyman, Mr. Morton. When she finally recognizes her true feelings, she breaks the disparate bond with Colville, who marries Mrs. Bowen.