A woman who says she was reborn eighty years after her death returns in a ten-year-old body and is presented to the old master as the countryside heiress. Relatives immediately criticize her lack of schooling and rustic manners and argue she should be kept out of sight until educated. Tension spikes when she refuses to surrender a strange mask the family finds terrifying, and a younger child screams that there are dead bodies. The girl then declares she is the Baker's daughter and wins acknowledgment, but the mask incident and the body's report leave her place in the household unresolved.