Meg of the heather

A young woman named Meg seeks solitude on a windswept heath and is portrayed as both willful and vulnerable. In a country house an impulsive hostess invites disadvantaged city children, provoking exhaustion and moral worry for her older companion, Miss Gregson, who strives to instruct and protect them. Tensions between impulse and responsibility generate domestic conflicts, tender attachments to a little boy, episodes of humiliation and flight, and later remorse. The narrative moves between pastoral description and intimate scenes to explore charity, conscience, and the consequences of acting without deliberation.