A beautiful and tragical novel about thwarted love. Lord Miltoun and Audrey Lees-Noel are unable to marry because of his social and political ties (he is the "patrician" of the story)combined with the fact that she is separated, without being divorced, from her unloving husband. The patrician himself is all intellect, all hard facts. His young sister is more emotional but ultimately within the confines of convention. The two people they become infatuated with are not of their world.
