Susan Morgan had big ideas which could not be satisfied by any life of humdrum domesticity, and a passionate nature which sought to burst the bonds of convention. Her life in New York, and her job as a Wall Street secretary, gave her an outlet for her energies and her tempestuous yearnings. Although she had not planned in advance her love affair with Carter Abercrombie, her employer's son, neither did she regret it. Then she learned that Carter was married and had simply been amusing himself with Susan while his wife was away on a cruise. Furious and hurt, Susan turned to Carter's father, Arthur, for advice. And his advice was to forget Carter and to concentrate on assuaging Arthur's own loneliness.