“A work of art which is not only permeated with an extraordinarily sympathetic understanding of the human heart, but displays also from beginning to end the sort of vigor and sanity that can employ the most delicate instruments and the subtlest methods without becoming intellectually nearsighted and without losing even for a moment a sense of true proportion.... Mrs. Dudeney is the equal of Thomas Hardy, as she is his literary congener.”--_Professor Harry Thurston Peck in the Bookman._ “It shows the same deep insight into the complications of the human soul [as did the author’s earlier novel].... This story from the opening page is tense with sustained power and is surely destined to be one…
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