When the Birds Begin to Sing

'When the Birds Begin to Sing' is a romance novel by Winifred Graham. The story begins by introducing us to Eleanor, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. She is as fresh and beautiful in the eyes of Philip Roche, the protagonist of the novel, as the field flowers whose heads fall fading beneath his tread while he follows her through the long grass. He has watched her playing with the innocent school children—little more than a child herself—and then, with the calm assurance that to him is second nature, joins the merry throng unasked. The children greet him eagerly, after scrambling for a handful of silver from the stranger's pocket, for is it not the great, grand treat of all the year?