Trilogy plot
An omnibus. In "Miriam", Miss Miller has spent her life working as a nanny in New York's most posh homes. One day she is shocked to learn that one of her "babies" is expecting a baby of her own and she declines Miss Miller's offer to be the nurse to the child-to-be.In "Under the Paths to Eden," Mary O'Meaghan, a spinster, strikes up a conversation in a cemetery in Queens, New York with a widower who lays flowers on the grave of his deceased woman. In "A Christmas Memory," as Christmas approaches in rural Alabama, a young man and his best friend prepare for the holiday by gathering ingredients for their annual serving of fruitcakes for "people who noticed them."