A construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges is undergoing a mid-life crisis. He is married and resumes his acquaintance with a former lover, Hilda Burgoyne, in London. The affair gnaws at Bartley's sense of propriety and honour.
Af Various Authors, Ernest Hemingway, Anton Chekhov, Ayn Rand, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack London, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Willa Cather