An Algonquin Maiden

After some years of absence, young Edward MacLeod is returning to his parents' mansion somewhere in Upper Canada as his mother is dying. There he meets again with his sister Rose and the beautiful Helène De Berczy, a friend of Rose's and a neighbor. While Rose is in love with the ambitious young politician Allan Dunlop whom her father cannot stand for his radical and progresive views, Edward is torn between 2 loves. Should he choose the blond haired and cultivated Hélène or should he choose the mysterious and wild Wanda, a girl of Algonquin and Huron descent who spends her days swimming in lakes?