If Ben Calvert had married Jessie Ward years earlier, while she was still deeply in love with him, theirs might have been a fairly happy marriage. It might have been an honest one too, based on sincere emotion. But Ben hadn't married Jessie then, it had only been through trickery that she had forced him to marry her at all. And now, although they lived in the same house, ate at the same table, and occasionally talked in a superficially pleasant way, each had secret reservations and bitterness...