Benjamin Holmes had been a brilliant man. Too brilliant. For who is to know or ever understand the strangest and most mysterious of all things - man's mind. In 1890, Professor Holmes had suffered a nervous breakdown, and everyone had felt a great compassion for the small kindly man who absently went his own way. Everyone smiled at his harmless peculiarities - everyone except Joe Flaherty - who was deeply and it seemed hopelessly in love with Barbara Holmes.