In Maine, Tod and Linc work at a sawmill and board with a French Canadian one-armed former logger Poppa and his beautiful daughter Marie. Marie tries to be what ever a man wants her to be. Marie and Link are having a romance and Marie tells Tod « I’m going to hurt your friend ». Sailor Jack arrives in town between ships and has a fling with Marie. Marie decides to leave home to « find herself » but Tod and Linc talk her out of it.