Honour Bright (New Portway Reprints)
Honor is torn between her love for a brilliant young man connected with a presidential family but who, for all his charm and brilliance, carries with him the fatal seeds of weakness and unreliability, and other men who love but do not understand her. Mrs Archibald Agassiz Stone laid her plump, gloved hand condescendingly on the black broadcloth sleeve of a spindling, bespectacled usher, and began her progress up the center aisle of Trinity Church uncompromisingly, if a little breathlessly. (from Chapter 1)