Publisher's Synopsis
First published in 1911, this novel by Robert Hugh Benson tells the story of a young man of English society who walks away from his wealth in order to find a living on his own merits and abilities. A recent convert to Catholicism, he also tries to live by his faith and becomes convinced that his destiny is to intervene in the life of a young woman who is illicitly passing herself off as wife to a particularly low character. Can his wealthy friends convince him to abandon the poverty that is slowly killing him and return to the comfort of his legacy? Will he succeed in his quest to rescue the woman from her life of sin?
