_By_ ETHEL COOK ELIOT
Author of “Ariel Dances”
In this warm and colorful novel Dr. Lewis Pryne, asked by the beautiful
Clare Farwell to psycho-analyze her stepdaughter, finds himself falling
in love with the girl instead. Clare is Petra’s third stepmother and
their interest in the same man teems with conflict and event.
Those who responded so happily to the author’s previous novel, “Ariel
Dances,” will find an even deeper and more vital pleasure here. For
again Mrs. Eliot has given us a story of fresh charm and has added an
authentic element of joy which is born in a richly motivated soil of
character and human aspirations toward the “durable satisfactions of
life.”
The scene shifts between the doctor’s city office and Clare’s country
home. The office atmosphere is now and again stark with human suffering.
Luxury and an easy graciousness of living characterize the country home.
But the final shift of scene is to the “green doors” through which Lewis
and Petra and several others move toward the reality and meaning of
their lives.
Popular priced edition made possible by the author’s acceptance of
reduced royalty, and the use of plates of the original edition.