ageing, sickly man whose love for her could never be more than platonic. On the following day, she returns to her husband without ever telling him about her intended betrayal. At the end of the novel, three years after her aborted decision to live with Pleydon, her son Lowrie marries a college-educated suffragette while Linda Hallet herself, while grieving over Pleydon's death, starts dyeing her hair in a fruitless struggle against time. Release details Joseph Hergesheimer: Linda Condon (Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1919). e-book at Schulers Books Online, and Project Gutenberg. Quotations "Her [Linda's] life had taught her nothing if not the fact that a number of women figured in every man's history. It was deplorable but couldn't be avoided; and whether or not it continued after marriage depended on the cunning of any wife." "Selfishness was a reproach applied by those who failed to get what they wanted to all who succeeded." "She knew what troubled her [...] — the difficulties presented by the term "love". In her mind it was divided into two or three widely different aspects, phases which she was unable to reconcile. Her mother, in the beginning, had informed her that love was a nuisance. To be happy, a man must love you without any corresponding return; this was necessary to his complete management, the securing of the greatest possible amount of new clothes. It was as far as love should be allowed to enter marriage. But that reality, with a complete expression in shopping, was distant from the immaterial and delicate emotions that in her responded to Pleydon." See also psychological repression Read on: Mother-daughter relationship in fiction Grant Allen: The Woman Who Did (novel) James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce (novel) Shelagh Delaney: A Taste of Honey (play) P. D. James: Innocent Blood (novel) Marsha Norman: 'night, Mother (play) Joyce Carol Oates: The Eclipse (play) Ruth Rendell: The Crocodile Bird (novel) Mona Simpson: Anywhere but Here (novel) 1919 American novels