Aunt Georgiana is coming to visit her nephew Clark, a young Bostonian gentleman, from Nebraska, to settle an estate. In her youth, Georgiana was a talented music teacher with a great deal of potential. She taught at the Boston Conservatory, a performing arts conservatory in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, until she met Howard Carpenter during a trip to Vermont's Green Mountains. They eloped to Nebraska where they purchased a homestead and built a life.
Until her visit, Georgiana had not been back to Boston in thirty years, longer than Clark has been alive. He thinks fondly of her; as a little boy he had visited her in Nebraska and found her kind and very interesting. She had retained her love of the arts and was the first person to tell him about Shakespeare. She also introduced him to classics and mythology. He recalls evenings spent enjoying listening to her playing her small parlor organ.
Knowing that they have a love of music in common, and wanting to repay the kindness she showed him as a child, Clark arranges to take Georgiana to a symphony concert of music from Wagner's Tannhauser, Tristan und Isolde, as well as The Flying Dutchman, a German language opera. Georgiana is enchanted by the music and becomes so emotional that tears pour involuntarily down her face. When the performance is over she tells Clark repeatedly that she doesn't want to leave.
