Melissa is a difficult child. There are reasons for that: she’s an orphan, lives with her father—far from being a model of virtue—she is left to her own devices, picks fights with boys, and disappears alone into the woods. But then she decides to go to school. After her father dies, the settlement takes her under its care, and the girl changes completely. What’s more, despite her young age, she develops a very strong and deep feeling for her teacher…