Set in San Francisco, California like Wolf's earlier novels, it told the story of home perplexities.

All went smoothly until Hall Kenyon fell in love with one sister and married another.

This last, the voluntary scapegoat of them all, a scapegoat actuated solely by altruism, with hardly a shadow of egoism in her composition, is perhaps the most loveable of all Wolf's creations, but the interest will center about the love-affairs of the prodigals who marry each other against their mutual wills.

[4] After the reader overcomes the prejudice inspired by the personal descriptions, they learn to like the characters, despite their wealth of golden hair, their luminous hazel eyes, their finely chiselled noses, their mouths steeled by sudden stubborn intolerance, their rounded, satiny wrists, the flashes of their white teeth, the grave music of their tender peaceful voices, the impulsive color of their olive cheeks, the refractory curls which are tossed back from their childist foreheads, and the glowing wine of summer which emanates from every inch of their wholesome physiques.

[4] In this romance novel, love and loyalty, sorrow and disappointment, as well as living and learning blend together as a basis for the author's theme.