Our heroine Kate is madly in love with her fiancé. She is planning their wedding and future life together... Unfortunately, she discovers a secret that he has that will forever change what she thinks of him. With this new insight, she is toils with her desire to be morally accountable; and for him to 'do the right thing'... Much later in life; she finds herself in a very similar situation, only this time with her own son... A gripping and fascinating novella about the so called Gilded Age, by one of the true masters of the genre!