"It is good, ethically and artistically, to read and read again a book with such a lift." -- New York Times Kate Orme was in love -- until she learned her lover"s terrible secret. But she married him anyway, out of a sense of obligation . . . and she loved their son, Dick, with all her heart. And she worried for him, even after his father passed -- worried that he"d have to face the same moral crossroads that had destroyed his father. . . .