Irish baronet Felix O'Day travels to New York City to search for his wife, Barbara, who left him with a man named Dalton more than a year prior.
[1] During his search for Barbara, O'Day meets the expressman's wife Kitty Cleary after becoming employed, later befriending her.
[4][5] A review from The New York Times said, "Felix O'Day has a simple plot that never relaxes its interest, characters so fully alive that they seem like personal friends, and an optimistic spirit of goodwill that lingers like a strain of sweet music.
[6]The Des Moines Register said, "Gentle and rambling of style, rather than powerful and intense, the book still holds the interest easily from beginning to end.
"[3] Publishers Weekly listed the novel as the second bestselling book of December 1915 in the United States.