Chapter One: Prophecy Barbara Tappan was born at Hilltop, New Jersey, a residence village twenty-one miles from New York. Her mother died a year later and her father, the Reverend Louis Tappan, retired to live on his comfortable inherited income when the only child was five years old. Contents: Prophecy Hallowe'en The Ice Evolution The Ideal Good-Night The Wedding Honeymoon The First Year Back The Beginning Twenty-one to Twenty-three Twenty-three to Twenty-five Twenty-five to Twenty-nine Thirty The last Rebellion Broken