It is a great love story, concerning itself with Valerie West, a gently bred girl, who from a cloistered life with an invalid mother comes to the studio of Louis Neville, an artist of aristocratic and snobbish ancestry. She seeks employment as a model, and her beauty readily wins an audience, while her physical perfections suit the work that Neville has in hand, so that she is eagerly engaged.
The story follows this association through a rapid progress from intellectual companionship, pure friendship and then fervid love. Love triumphant over tradition is the concluding note of the story.
“Mr. Chambers has written charmingly as usual. He has a most fascinating manner of putting abstractions and theorizings into seemingly pulsating actuality, and his delineation of human emotions is so boldly and palpably real he is able to illustrate it with the most fantastic and wonderful circumstances.”—Des Moines Register-Leader.
“Mr. Chambers has achieved a virtually flawless novel.”—Hartford Courant.
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The story deals with a woman who had won for herself an enviable position in the business world, when she is persuaded to marry one of her employees, who turns out to be an adventurer. Her disappointment strengthens her already wonderfully strong character, and the outcome of the story is as amazing as it is unusual.
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