"A Resurrection" is a short story by American writer Willa Cather.
[1] Martin is back to his hometown, Brownville, Nebraska, where he wants to pick up his son Bobbie and move to Kansas City with him.
She would overspend and get bored with domesticity; she eventually died as she was trying to run away.
She expresses her dismay with the unkind letter he sent her when he married Aimee.
Bobbie is awakened by the sound of the river, and Martin, in his faith in the water deity, hopes she will consent to his proposal.