The tremendous audience that eagerly awaits each new novel by Kathleen Norris will be delighted with this long, richly-detailed book. Mrs. Norris here presents the story of a business girl in a way that will touch not only all girls of Honor’s kind everywhere, but every woman who has known the joys of a first love and the later, half-amused comprehension in her own mind when she looked back on that love as a thing finished. Honor Brownell was in love with Paul Cartwright, the San Francisco lawyer for whom she worked, and the day came when she told her family and the man to whom she was engaged that she would marry Paul as soon as he could get a divorce. Paul’s wife, however, refused to divorce him, and Honor was prepared to follow any course to find fulfillment of their love. But by a trick of fate, her whole life was to be altered by an accident. It happened as, unseen and in bitter despair, she watched Paul and his wife and two sons leave by plane for the East. During a long convalescence Honor began to write, and to be successful at it. In Birge Persons, her publisher’s son, she found a new kind of friend. Then, in New England, she met Paul again, and this time he was free. With the emotions of five years before still strongly binding them, they planned their marriage. Kathleen Norris concludes her book with a surprise ending which will delight the most avid story-reader and will again evoke universal admiration of her talent for interpreting modern people and their consciously-complicated lives.