The story of a foster-mother’s devotion to the illegitimate son of the man whom she was engaged to marry. The compromising situations that arise from her determination to shield the boy leave in the reader’s mind “two ideas: first, a strong doubt as to the wisdom of too much self-sacrifice, and secondly, the enormous advantage, even from the point of view of expediency, of the open and straightforward course of action.” (Bookm.)
“This is a story which grows in interest from the first to the last page. It is well constructed and full of dramatic situations which nowhere develop into melodrama, in fact the more intense and strained these situations become the more naturally and simply does the author treat them.”
| + | Acad. 72: 415. Ap. 27, ’07. 290w. |
“For a novel so well written, the theme, as we have said, is disappointing. People do make wrecks of their lives, but not in this wantonly sentimental manner.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 240w. |
“The book is interesting, the characters have a life and personality of their own and it is written in that pleasant, tranquil narrative style which is destined to flourish and charm long after the present morbid and neurotic school shall have disappeared.” Mary K. Ford.
| − + | Bookm. 26: 278. N. ’07. 600w. |
“He has the credit of elaborating what is probably a new situation in the old triangular plot, and earns gratitude thereby, even if the characters, especially the actress and the journalist, suggest only the properties of his art.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 118. Ap. 12, ’07. 300w. |