Impulsive Gaynor Scarlett, in love with her childhood sweetheart, is cruelly let down by him and her ideals are shattered. Her older sister, lovely, remote Katheryn, also turns to her first boyfriend- Paul Earnshaw and marries him. Her coldness drives Paul to folly to another woman. Although Katheryn is, and always has been, his only real love, he cannot compete with the man, now dead, David- that dynamic purveyor of vice- who roused Katheryn's cool young heart into an all-consuming love for him, a love which fills her night and day with a terrible yearning so that she has no real interest in anyone living. --Cover