Half Loaves

A story that "concerns chiefly two women who, after trials and tribulations with their husbands, assert the hackneyed doctrine of 'their right to happiness'; the one by disappearing into temporary bliss with the man named Illsboro, who 'came'; the other by retiring to a childhood's haunt in Italy and playing good genius to a hill-town under the guidance of an Italian ministering angel (male). The moral law being inflexible, the experiments end in failure - irretrievable in one case, in the ...