The story opens among the crowds of German potentates and French notables taking the waters at Aix-les-Bains, with a husband and wife whose marriage is already under strain. Through a rectory, a quarrel between father and son, a severance and new beginnings, it follows how reputation, authorship and love are bound together.
A capable late-Victorian domestic novel by one of the era’s most prolific women writers. Download the free EPUB.