Lavanda i starinnye kruzheva

Miss Rut Torn, reporter gorodskoy gazety "Gerald", na polgoda pereezzhaet v selskuyu mestnost, chtoby prismotret za domom teti Dzheyn Heteuey, kotoraya uezzhaet v Evropu. Edinstvennoe o chyom tetya poprosila Rut v zapiske, ne obyasnyaya prichinu, - zazhigat lampu v vostochnom okne cherdaka kazhdyy vecher. Svet ot lampy uzhe pyat let bespreryvno gorit, i etot ritual dolzhny podderzhivat i seychas. Rut nachinaet pogruzhatsya v zhizn tihoy selskoy mestnosti, znakomitsya s zagadochnoy miss Eynsli, i s molodym chelovekom Karlom Uindildom. Karl tozhe kogda-to byl reportyorom redaktsii gazety "Gerald", gde rabotaet Rut, no iz-za problem so zreniem on vremenno ne mozhet rabotat, i po rekomendatsii okulista dolzhen otdohnut polgoda, a glavnyy redaktor gazety posovetoval emu poehat vsled za Rut. Mezhdu Rut i Karlom postepenno zarozhdayutsya chuvstva, i vskore oni planiruyut sovmestnoe buduschee. Odnako vozvraschenie teti s novym muzhem menyaet privychnyy hod sobytiy, i Rut na vremya pereezzhaet k miss Eynsli. Tak prohodit esche para mesyatsev bezmyatezhnoy zhizni. Karl i Rut planiruyut skoruyu svadbu. No odnazhdy miss Eynsli vstaet s posteli sovsem v drugom nastroenii, chem obychno, i rasskazyvaet Rut svoyu taynu, i zachem byla nuzhna lampa v dome tyoti Dzheyn.