Stephen Glennard needs money to marry. When a biographer advertises for letters of the late novelist Margaret Aubyn, he remembers the hundreds she wrote to him, a woman who loved him and whom he never loved back. He publishes them anonymously, and the book’s success brings him the means to marry and a conscience he cannot quiet.
Wharton’s first novella, from 1900, already sure-footed in the moral psychology that marks her great novels. Download the free EPUB.