For the last seven years successful novelist Howard Mossman has played the role of the perfect husband. he's been generous, affectionate, thoughtful and indulgent yet here he is now, forsaken as his wife has left him for another man, a man who used to be secretary to Mossman. Howard Mossman is a proud man and suspects he will be ridiculed if it gets out his wife has left him for anther man. He wants her to be found even if it is only so they can be divorced.