A beauty, two rivals who mean her harm, and a birthday that turns out to be the hinge of the whole plot. Mrs. Miller wrote for the American story papers, where a chapter had to end every week on a cliff, and she was one of the most reliably read women in that trade. This edition adds sixty plates of painting bound with the text, among them works by Eugene von Guerard, Johan Christian Dahl and Théodore Ralli.
