A remarkable novel, full of vital force, which gives us a glimpse
into the innermost sanctuary of a woman’s soul--a revelation of the
truth that to a woman there may be a greater thing than the love of
a man--the story pictured against a wonderful Southern California
background.
“One of the big headliners in bookland.”--_Detroit News._
“The book is a tissue of mysteries, quite apart from the ordinary
usages, but solved in the end satisfactorily.”--_Chicago Tribune._
“One of those rare examples of literary composition the artistic
excellence of which is uniform and even throughout.”--_Charleston
News and Courier._
“There is color, vitality, and freshness in the picture, and
charming variety of detail in the development of story. Horton is
the ideal lover, strong-hearted, wilful, persevering; and Kate is
the vivid, tantalizing, impersonal creature in an armor of secrecy.
But the author transforms this woman into a being of rarest and most
beautiful human qualities--or rather, brings those latent emotions
to the fore. She is a woman racked by grief over death and unhappy
marital experiences in youth, and, later, a woman ‘lied to, tortured,
duped, and her heart polluted and desecrated’; and in giving up her
beloved lawyer-friend, whom she would have married, to the ‘helpless,
motherless, hampered’ child who so passionately claimed his love,
Kate’s humanism stands out in almost supernatural power.”--_Boston
Evening Transcript._
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